Yakov Rabkin

Yakov M. Rabkin is a historian and professor emeritus at the Université de Montréal whose work spans Jewish history, science and society, and the political development of modern ideologies. He is the author of A Threat from Within: A Century of Jewish Opposition to Zionism, a major historical study documenting internal Jewish critiques of Zionism across religious, cultural, and political traditions. Bloomsbury Publishing Rabkin’s public dissent is grounded in historical scholarship and extensive research into Jewish intellectual traditions that reject nationalism in favor of Torah‑based ethics. His work situates contemporary Jewish anti‑Zionism within a century‑long lineage of religious and scholarly opposition, contributing to broader understandings of Jewish dissent and debates about Zionism’s impact on Jewish life and global politics.