May 9, 2006

Book Launch

“Threat from Within:

A Century of Jewish Opposition to Zionism”

Professor Yakov M. Rabkin, University of Montreal

Wednesday, May 17 at 6 pm
Library & Archives Canada - (National Library of Canada), Ottawa (613-996-5115)

This fascinating book analyzes, within an historical and contemporary perspective, the little-studied and little-known phenomenon of the opposition of haredi (ultra-Orthodox) Jews to both the Zionist movement and the State of Israel. After half a century, when it seemed Zionist secularism was gradually sweeping away everything before it, the return of religion as an issue in world politics, together with the new uncertainty about the fate of Israel, make a new work on the haredi-Zionist conflict topical and relevant.


Yakov Rabkin has produced an altogether remarkable book that tells the story and analyzes the ideas of the Orthodox Jewish movement opposed to Zionism and the State of Israel.

I am enormously impressed by the author's historical scholarship, by his brilliant analysis of a complex literature and the lucidity of his prose. This is an extraordinary book. — Dr. Gregory Baum, McGill University

Yakov M. Rabkin is a Professor of History at the University of Montreal.
262pages • Paperback • ISBN 1-55266-171-7 • $24.95
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