{"id":21506,"date":"2021-06-24T13:36:14","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T17:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/?p=21506"},"modified":"2024-07-03T19:50:00","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T23:50:00","slug":"michael-petrou-contributes-chapter-on-jewish-canadians-in-the-spanish-civil-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/2021\/michael-petrou-contributes-chapter-on-jewish-canadians-in-the-spanish-civil-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Petrou Contributes Chapter on Jewish-Canadians in the Spanish Civil War"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Michael Petrou Contributes Chapter on Jewish-Canadians in the Spanish Civil War\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Michael-Petrou-240x160.gif\" alt=\"Michael Petrou headshot\" class=\"wp-image-16195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Michael-Petrou-240x160.gif 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Michael-Petrou-300x200.gif 300w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Michael-Petrou-160x107.gif 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Michael-Petrou-400x267.gif 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Michael-Petrou-360x240.gif 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Adjunct Research Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/people\/michael-petrou\/\">Michael Petrou<\/a> has written a chapter in the recently published &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/brill.com\/view\/title\/60123\">Armed Jews in the Americas<\/a>&#8220;. Professor Petrou is a well-respected historian and journalist who will be teaching for the History Department again in <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/undergraduate\/courses\/4000-level-2\/hist-4915b-ottomans\/\">winter 2022<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To learn more about this new publication, including Professor Petrou&#8217;s chapter &#8220;&#8216;Our Fight Is Not Yet Over&#8217;: Jewish-Canadians in the Spanish Civil War&#8221;, please visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/brill.com\/view\/title\/60123\">publisher&#8217;s website<\/a> for more details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About the book<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"160\" height=\"244\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Armed-Jews-in-the-Americas-160x244.jpg\" alt=\"cover of book Armed Jews in the America showing a man holding a gun\" class=\"wp-image-21508\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Armed-Jews-in-the-Americas-160x244.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Armed-Jews-in-the-Americas-240x366.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Armed-Jews-in-the-Americas.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A Jewish weapons manufacturer during the American Civil War, a Jewish-Canadian chair of the Metropolitan Toronto Police Board, and Jewish-Argentine guerrilla fighters\u2014these are some of the individuals discussed in this first-of-its-kind volume. It brings together some of the best new works on armed Jews in the Americas. Links between Jews and their ties to weapons are addressed through multiple cultural, political, social, and ideological contexts, thus breaking down longstanding, stilted myths in many societies about Jews and weaponry. Anti-Semitism and Jewish self-defense, Jewish volunteers in the Spanish Civil War and in the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, and Jewish-American gangsters as ethnic heroes form part of the little-researched topic of Jews and arms in the Americas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adjunct Research Professor Michael Petrou has written a chapter in the recently published &#8220;Armed Jews in the Americas&#8220;. Professor Petrou is a well-respected historian and journalist who will be teaching for the History Department again in winter 2022. To learn more about this new publication, including Professor Petrou&#8217;s chapter &#8220;&#8216;Our Fight Is Not Yet Over&#8217;: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16195,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[43,1,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","category-news","category-publications"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21509,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21506\/revisions\/21509"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}