Ein anderer Krieg: Das jüdische Palästina und der Zweite Weltkrieg 1935-1942 (The Other War: Jewish Palestine and World War II, 1935-1942), Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich 2021.
The book tells the geopolitical anatomy of the Second World War. An unfamiliar perspective is taken: the narrator looks substantially from south to north, in a subordinate way from west to east. Nevertheless, both horizons are merged into one another, focusing on different forms of violence executed during warfare and beyond, while trying to judge their bearings and repercussions in material reality as well as in public memory. Jewish Palestine, situated at the intersection of European-continental and non-European colonial perception, serves as an insightful hub of understanding and meaning for such an epistemological fusion. Its geographical location at the extreme north-western tip of imperial British rule in Asia always calls India as a reference to the overall spatial narrative that finds its core period in 1935/1942 – between the Italian Abyssinia War and the fateful battles of El-Alamain and Stalingrad.