Dr Axel Stähler, Reader in Comparative Literature for the Department of Comparative Literature, has recently published a book titled Zionism, the German Empire, and Africa (De Gruyter, November 2018).

Zionism, the German Empire, and Africa explores the impact on the self-perception and culture of early Zionism of contemporary constructions of racial difference and of the experience of colonialism in imperial Germany. More specifically, interrogating in a comparative analysis material that draws from a range of cultural sources, the book situates the short-lived but influential Zionist satirical magazine Schlemiel (1903–07) in an extensive network of nodal clusters of varying and shifting significance and with differently developed strains of cohesion or juncture that roughly encompasses the three decades from 1890 to 1920.

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