Pulitzer-Prize Winning author Benjamin Moser for Anti-Zionism: A Jewish History

'With meticulous research, wit, and a searching moral candour, Benjamin Moser takes on decades of propaganda in these portraits of Jewish intellectuals and public figures in the shadow of Zionism's grand narratives.' _-- ISABELLA HAMMAD,_ _AUTHOR OF ENTER GHOST_'A rare book that induces a simultaneous expansion of the mind and soul' _-- PANKAJ MISHRA, AUTHOR OF THE WORLD AFTER GAZA_'Benjamin Moser has created a work that is not only necessary, but riveting.

What I learned in these pages has profoundly changed my understanding of history - the world's, my people's, my family's, and my own' _-- AYELET WALDMAN, AUTHOR OF A PERFECT HAND_'A book of extraordinary moral clarity.

With razor-sharp prose ...

Moser reveals the true face of the Zionist movement to colonize Palestine.

Taking us from Jerusalem to Rio de Janeiro, Baghdad to Berlin, this master biographer's vivid, insightful, and affectionately drawn portraits illuminate the integrity of the defiant souls who stood in opposition'_ -- NATHAN THRALL,_ _AUTHOR OF A DAY IN THE LIFE OF ABED SALAMA_A SWEEPING AND REVELATORY HISTORY OF THE HIDDEN TRADITION OF JEWISH THINKERS WHO OPPOSED ZIONISM FROM PULITZER PRIZE WINNER BENJAMIN MOSER.In _Anti-Zionism: A Jewish History,_ Benjamin Moser uncovers a suppressed tradition that has shaped Jewish thought for generations.

Through a cast of artists, rabbis, poets, lawyers, activists, journalists and politicians - from Europe and Africa and Asia and Latin America - Moser traces a lineage of Jewish dissenters who confronted Zionism's moral and political stakes - often at devastating personal cost, including censorship, exile and death.Their lives form a sweeping, global narrative that dismantles a powerful myth: that anti-Zionism is synonymous with antisemitism.

Spanning continents and centuries, these voices - people from the right and the left, Reform and Orthodox, Ashkenazic and Sephardic, men and women, gay and straight - differ sharply in belief and background, yet converge on a shared warning about the consequences of a nationalist project built on exclusion.

What emerges is not only a rediscovered tradition of Jewish moral thought, but a startling reappraisal of Zionism itself.Moser's work restores the full scale and depth of Jewish ethical imagination, affirming that Judaism is older and larger than any single political project.

Lucid, unsparing and deeply humane, _Anti-Zionism_ cements Moser's place as one of our foremost Jewish writers and presents a framework through which this history - and its meanings - will be understood for years to come.Benjamin Moser won the Pulitzer Prize for his book _Sontag: Her Life and Work _in 2020.

He is the author of Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector, a finalist for the National Book Critics’ Circle Award and a New York Times Notable Book of 2009.

For his work bringing Clarice Lispector to international prominence, he received Brazil’s first State Prize for Cultural Diplomacy.

He won a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2017.