Whose People?

Jasmine Donahaye has a BA from UC Berkeley and a PhD from Swansea University. She has published literary and cultural criticism, creative non-fiction and poetry in the UK and the US. Her books include Self-Portrait as Ruth (2009), and Misappropriations (2006).

• Introduction: A beginning and an end 1 Tracing the Wales-Israel tradition 2 The mission to convert the Jews 3 Welsh semitic discourse 4 Twentieth-century political comparisons 5 The Jewish response

"By carefully interrogating the actual written record, Jasmine Donahaye's Whose People? Wales, Israel, Palestine, manages to disrupt more than one historical commonplace about Welsh attitudes regarding Wales and Jews, Zionism and the Holy Land. Donahaye's pathbreaking work demonstrates that the representation of this iconic relationship has a varied and contingent history, a history constantly elided or reconfigured as the need for new representations of Wales and Welshness arose. Whose People combines careful scholarship with invigorating analysis." Professor Daniel Melia, Program in Celtic Studies, University of California, Berkeley