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Philip Earl Steele

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Philip Earl Steele is an American scholar based in Poland. He specialises in early medieval history and 19th century Zionism. His book on Poland’s Christian beginnings in the 10th century (Nawrócenie I chrzest Mieszka I, 1st ed., 2005, 2nd ed., 2016) was a bestseller.

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Known to Theodor Herzl after all: The late 19th-century American and British bids to establish a Jewish state in Palestine

By Philip Earl Steele
 On the 120th anniversary of Theodor Herzl's death, Fathom publishes an extract from Philip Earl Steele's recent book... Read more > July 2024

Rereadings | Demonopathy: Leon Pinsker’s Theory of Antisemitism

By Philip Earl Steele
 Philip Earl Steele rereads Autoemancipation! author Leon Pinsker’s theory of antisemitism. Could our innate ‘fear of ghosts’ really... Read more > February 2024

Fathom eBook: Birthing Zionism – Studies of 19th-century British Christian Zionists: George Eliot, Laurence Oliphant and Rev. William Hechler

By Philip Earl Steele
 This Fathom eBook collects three essays by Philip Earl Steele published in Fathom Journal between 2019 and 2022:... Read more > June 2023

British Christian Zionism (Part 3): Reverend William Hechler – from Hovevei Zion to Herzl and beyond

By Philip Earl Steele
 Philip Earl Steele examines the contribution of Reverend William Hechler to the early Zionist movement and argues that... Read more > April 2022

British Christian Zionism (Part 2): the work of Laurence Oliphant

By Philip Earl Steele
 The literary, diplomatic and direct organisational efforts of the British Christian Zionist Laurence Oliphant were central to the... Read more > January 2020

British Christian Zionism (Part 1): George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda

By Philip Earl Steele
 The impact of George Eliot’s 1876 novel Daniel Deronda was central to the coalescence of the first Zionist... Read more > June 2019

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