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August 3, 2026

Zionism and the British Empire

A new global look at the Jews living under the House of Windsor.

In 1936, Zionist leaders dispatched a South African architect named Hermann Kallenbach and a Jewish scholar of Sanskrit named Emmanuel Olsvanger to India, where they met with Mohandas Gandhi to try to win him over to the Zionist cause. The context of these missions was the shared fate of Mandatory Palestine and the Indian Subcontinent as territories of the British empire. Allan Arkush reviews a new book about Jews and their place in this empire:

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