HBI Seminar: Anat Granit-Hacohen
Thursday, March 30, 2017
12:30pm - 2:00pm
Kosher lunch provided.
Liberman-Miller Lecture Hall
Hadassah-Brandeis Institute
Brandeis University
515 South Street
Waltham, MA 02454
Dr. Anat Granit-Hacohen joins us from Israel to discuss her recent publication, Hebrew Women Join the Forces: Jewish Women from Palestine in the British Forces During the Second World War, winner of the HBI Helen Hammer 2012 Translation Award.
During the Second World War, some 3,600 Jewish women from Palestine volunteered to serve in the British armed forces in the Middle East. The recruitment of women was in defiance of all conventional male thought. Not least because these women were joining the British Army - a foreign and colonial army - and this created a unique situation that cast gender and nationalist issues in a new light. This book is the first to tackle these new perspectives.