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Anti-Zionism, Mistranslation, and the Problem of the Century: From W. E. B. Du Bois to Edward W. Said to Ta-Nehisi Coates

Anti-Zionism, Mistranslation, and the Problem of the Century: From W. E. B. Du Bois to Edward W. Said to Ta-Nehisi Coates

Eskin, Michael

Hardcover

Series: de Gruyter Holocaust Studies and Antisemitism

General World History

PREORDER - Expected ship date September 21, 2026

ISBN10: 3112249186
ISBN13: 9783112249185
Publisher: de Gruyter
Published: Sep 21 2026
Pages: 798
Weight: 3.23
Height: 1.69 Width: 6.69 Depth: 9.61
Language: English

How have Jews and Zionism, Israel and Palestine been read, debated, and represented in the United States since the early twentieth century? Michael Eskin addresses this question in a work of cultural-discursive archeology. Focusing on the convergence of pro-Palestinian and Black lives activism before and especially after Hamas's attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, he traces a line of influential interventions from W. E. B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk (1903) through Edward Said's The Question of Palestine (1979) to Ta-Nehisi Coates's The Message (2024). Eskin argues that entrenched patterns of Black antisemitism have at times merged with broader U.S. anti-Zionism, shaping today's controversies. He further contends that key debates rest on enduring misreadings and mistranslations of foundational Zionist texts by Theodor Herzl and Vladimir Jabotinsky, among others, originally written in German and Russian, perused in the original ostensibly by only a few, yet consumed in noxious mistranslation by a great many with often-calamitous real-life consequences.

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