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More broadly, her research explores how everyday practices, personal and affective ties, and spaces of private and convivial interaction shape political experience. Professor Imber offers courses in Jewish history, British imperial history, and the history of modern Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Her first book,<span>\u00a0<\/span><em>Uncertain Empire: Jews, Nationalism, and the Fate of British Imperialism <\/em>(Stanford University Press, 2025),\u00a0explores the multifaceted nature of Jewish politics in the British Empire during the rise of anticolonial national and transnational political movements. Though Jews in all modern empires grappled variously with imperial policies and burgeoning nationalisms, Jews in the British Empire after 1917 faced the unique situation of living under the power that controlled Palestine, the territory at the heart of Jewish political, cultural, and religious aspirations both in and beyond the empire.<span>\u00a0<\/span><em>Uncertain Empire\u00a0<\/em>investigates how Jewish elites from three imperial sites\u2014Mandate Palestine, India, and South Africa\u2014understood the changing and potentially conflicting relationships between British imperialism, Zionism, and anticolonial (trans)nationalisms. The project argues that a consideration of the many possible fates of the British Empire\u2014spanning from the persistence of imperial rule to the triumph of anticolonial political movements\u2014was central to the ways both Zionists and non-Zionists imagined Jewish political futures in the interwar period. This negotiation of any number of potential outcomes produced a range of political behaviors, strategies, practices, and vocabularies that upon first glance seem paradoxical. The project shows that these ostensible contradictions and incongruities were in fact all part of a broad, shared horizon of uncertainty\u2014uncertainty over Jewish national futures (varied and malleable as those visions were) and uncertainty over British imperial futures amidst the rise of anticolonial nationalisms.<\/p>\n<p>She is co-editor (along with Elissa Bemporad, Dina Danon, and Federica Francesconi) of the source reader <em>Jewish Women in Global Perspective: A Documentary History<\/em> (under contract, Oxford University Press).<\/p>\n<p><span>Before joining the faculty at Clark in 2019, Imber held the Berger-Neilsen Endowed Chair of Judaic Studies at The College of Idaho. 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She is particularly interested in the history of Zionism and Jewish nationalism; investigating and theorizing non-Zionism; Mandate Palestine; Jewish and Zionist conceptions of the \u201cstate\u201d; and the relationship between socialism and imperialism. More broadly, her research explores how everyday practices, personal and affective ties, and spaces of private and convivial interaction shape political experience. Professor Imber offers courses in Jewish history, British imperial history, and the history of modern Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Her first book,<span>\u00a0<\/span><em>Uncertain Empire: Jews, Nationalism, and the Fate of British Imperialism <\/em>(Stanford University Press, 2025),\u00a0explores the multifaceted nature of Jewish politics in the British Empire during the rise of anticolonial national and transnational political movements. 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