Authors: Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar
ISBN-13: 9781584654117, ISBN-10: 1584654112
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Brandeis University Press
Date Published: October 2004
Edition: New Edition
IVAN DAVIDSON KALMAR is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. His publications include The Trotskys, Freuds, and Woody Allens: Portrait of a Culture (1994). DEREK J. PENSLAR is Zacks Professor of History and Director of the Jewish Studies Program at the University of Toronto. His most recent publication is Shylock's Children: Economics and Jewish Identity in Modern Europe (2001).
A fascinating analysis of how Jews fit into scholarly debates about Orientalism.
Orientalism and the Jews : an introduction | ||
1 | Jesus did not wear a turban : Orientalism, the Jews, and Christian art | 3 |
2 | Placing the Jews in late medieval English literature | 32 |
3 | The use of the Jew in colonial discourse | 51 |
4 | The "Kaifeng Jew" hoax : constructing the "Chinese Jew" | 68 |
5 | Orientalism and the Jewish historical gaze | 80 |
6 | To pray like a dervish : Orientalist discourse in Arnold Zewig's The face of East European Jewry | 94 |
7 | Rejecting Zion, embracing the Orient : the life and death of Jacob Israel De Haan | 109 |
8 | Between East and West : Zionist revisionism as a Mediterranean ideology | 125 |
9 | Orientalism and Jewish national art : the case of Bezalel | 142 |
10 | The Zionist return to the West and the Mizrahi Jewish perspective | 162 |
11 | Broadcast Orientalism : representations of Mizrahi Jewry in Israeli radio, 1948-1967 | 182 |
12 | "We're not Jews" : imagining Jewish history and Jewish bodies in contemporary multicultural literature | 201 |