Derek Penslar
Derek Penslar is the William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History at Harvard University. His books include Theodor Herzl: The Charismatic Leader; Israel in History: The Jewish State in Comparative Perspective, The Origins of the State of Israel: A Documentary History (with Eran Kaplan), and Jews and the Military: A History. Penslar is President of the American Academy for Jewish Research, a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and an honorary fellow of St. Anne’s College, Oxford.
