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Glenda Abramson has recently retired as Professor of Hebrew and Jewish Studies at the University of Oxford. Her latest book (2008) deals with Hebrew writing of the First World War. She is editor of the Journal of Modern Jewish Studies.
Within a mere few years after World War II the Middle East was remade. The creation of the State of Israel in 1948 and its consequences helped propel that part of the world to what seems to be a permanent and unenviable spot on any list of world crises.
