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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

Author Biography: Ivan Davidson Kalmar

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).

	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

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Orientalism and the Jews » (New Edition)

Author Biography: Ivan Davidson Kalmar

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