Bruce Hoffman\u2019s Anonymous Soldiers is a comprehensive By Emily Burack, Research Intern Bruce Hoffman\u2019s Anonymous Soldiers is a comprehensive study of the Jewish underground during Mandatory Palestine. The book won the National Jewish Book Award Prize for Jewish Book of the Year, and it is well deserving of that title. Hoffman, a professor whose expertise is rooted in terrorism studies, approaches the story of the Jewish underground with a fine analytical…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[248,246,247,244,18,245,67],"class_list":["post-1302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-post","tag-anonymous-soldiers","tag-book-review","tag-bruce-hoffman","tag-emily-burack","tag-israel","tag-national-jewish-book-award","tag-research-intern"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nstudy of the Jewish underground during Mandatory Palestine. The book won the National Jewish Book Award Prize
\nfor Jewish Book of the Year<\/a>, and it is well deserving of that title. Hoffman, a
\nprofessor whose expertise is rooted in terrorism studies, approaches the story
\nof the Jewish underground with a fine analytical eye. Whether or not the Jewish
\nunderground were \u201cterrorists\u201d or \u201cfreedom fighters\u201d (and whether or not there\u2019s
\na difference between the two), Hoffman does not address, instead focusing on
\nthe controversial question of \u201cdoes terrorism work?\u201d Seventy years after events like the King David
\nHotel bombing<\/a>, studying that question through the lens of the
\nterrorist\/counterterrorist campaign in Mandatory Palestine remains extremely
\nrelevant to today. Was it the Irgun Zvai Leumi and the Stern Gang who finally
\npushed the British out of Palestine? Or was it a host of other geopolitical
\nfactors beyond the actions of the Jewish underground? Hoffman goes extremely in
\ndepth to specific stories and takes you into the perspectives of all the key
\nplayers, using newly released documents from British intelligence. A definitely
\nworthwhile read if you have even the slightest interest in the Jewish
\nunderground during Mandatory Palestine. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"