Max Kaiser - Jewish Antifascism and the False Promise of Settler Colonialism

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I am very grateful for the expert guidance, enthusiasm, and care from Sara Wills in the early stages of this research project at the University of Melbourne. Jordy Silverstein was a constant source of intellectual inspiration and introduced me to many of the thinkers whose work informs this book.

A special thanks is due to the late Stuart Macintyre for his rigorous reading of an earlier draft of this book. I was very fortunate to do coursework subjects during my PhD with David Goodman, Kate Darian-Smith, Kevin Brophy, Samia Khatun, and Catherine Hall. All of these scholars spurred me to challenge myself in my thinking and writing.

Thanks to all those who generously gave feedback, encouragement, ideas, and source material including John Docker, Jack Jacobs, Brendan McGeever, Briony Neilson, Andrew Sloin, Lisa Milner, Ben Silverstein, Graham Willett, Martie Lowenstein, Davina Lippmann, Matthew Albert, Monique Hameed, June Factor, Clare Fester, Faisal Al-Asaad, ngel Alcalde, Arnold Zable, and Emma Russell.

Another big thanks is due to Jehonathan Ben and Esther Singer for their assistance with translations.

My thanks to Beth Muldoon, Freg Stokes, Jimmy Yan, and Shan Windscript, for their always energising, supportive, and intellectually challenging friendship.

For their friendship, support, faith, and encouragement along the way thanks to Lorena Solin, Alex Turnbull, Teishan Ahearne, John Croker, Anton Donohoe-Marques, Terri Ann Quan Sing, Beth Marsden, Sian Vate, Rachel Barrett, Ainsley Kerr, and Carol Peterson.

Thanks to my Jewish lefty comrades around the world but especially to Jem, Fillie, Liam, Sivan, Han, Yoel, Esther, Babs, Sonya, Greg, and Goldie for their ongoing comradeship.

My sister Marti and my parents Alon and Lenora gave me their unwavering support. Being encouraged to read widely and follow my academic and activist passions are gifts I treasure more and more as I get older.

It was a privilege to be a host of the New Books in Jewish Studies podcast while doing this research. My thanks to Jason Schulman and Marshall Poe for giving me the opportunity and to the dozens of brilliant Jewish Studies scholars who I have interviewed.

Sections of this book have appeared in altered form in the Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, The Transnational Voices of Australias Migrant and Minority Press (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) and Fascism. Journal of Comparative Fascist Studies. My thanks to the anonymous reviewers, and editors of these respective publications, including Glenda Abramson, Catherine Dewhirst, Richard Scully, Mattie Fitch, Michael Ortiz, and Nick Underwood for strengthening my writing and arguments.