Research Catalog

Title

Orientalism and the Jews / edited by Ivan Davidson Kalmar and Derek J. Penslar.

Publication

Waltham, Mass. : Brandeis University Press ; Hanover : University Press of New England, 2005.

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Additional Authors

• Kalmar, Ivan Davidson.
• Penslar, Derek Jonathan.

Description

xl, 285 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

The Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jews series

Uniform Title

Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry series (Unnumbered)

Subjects

• Jews > Public opinion
• Orientalism > History
• Jews in art
• Jews > History
• Orientalism in art
• Orientalism in literature
• Public opinion > Western countries
• Jews in literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-266) and index.

Contents

Orientalism and the Jews : an introduction / Ivan Davidson Kalmar and Derek J. Penslar -- Jesus did not wear a turban : Orientalism, the Jews, and Christian art / Ivan Davidson Kalmar -- Placing the Jews in late medieval English literature / -- Suzanne Conklin Akbari -- The use of the Jew in colonial discourse / Tudor Parfitt -- The "Kaifeng Jew" hoax : constructing the "Chinese Jew" / Zhou Xun -- Orientalism and the Jewish historical gaze / John M. Efron -- To pray like a dervish : Orientalist discourse in Arnold Zweig's The face of East European Jewry / Noah Isenberg -- Rejecting Zion, embracing the Orient : the life and death of Jacob Israel De Haan / Michael Berkowitz -- Between East and West : Zionist revisionism as a Mediterranean ideology / Eran Kaplan -- Orientalism and Jewish national art : the case of Bezalel / Dalia Manor -- The Zionist return to the West and the Mizrahi Jewish perspective / Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin -- Broadcast Orientalism : representations of Mizrahi Jewry in Israeli radio, 1948-1967 / Derek J. Penslar -- "We're not Jews" : imagining Jewish history and Jewish bodies in contemporary multicultural literature / Sander L. Gilman.

Call Number

*PZB 05-599

ISBN

• 1584654104 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 1584654112 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2004017416

OCLC

56058110

Title

Orientalism and the Jews / edited by Ivan Davidson Kalmar and Derek J. Penslar.

Imprint

Waltham, Mass. : Brandeis University Press ; Hanover : University Press of New England, 2005.

Edition

1st ed.

Series

The Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jews series

Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry series (Unnumbered)

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-266) and index.

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Table of contents

Added Author

Kalmar, Ivan Davidson.

Penslar, Derek Jonathan.

Research Call Number

*PZB 05-599