Orientalism and the Jews
By: edited by Ivan Davidson Kalmar and Derek J. Penslar.
Contributors: Kalmar, Ivan Davidson.; Penslar, Derek Jonathan.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: The Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jews series; Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry series (Unnumbered)
Publisher: Brandeis University Press; University Press of New England
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Waltham, Mass; Hanover
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
Subjects: Orientalism -- History.; Orientalism in art.; Orientalism in literature.; Jews -- History.; Jews in art.; Jews in literature.; Jews -- Public opinion.; Public opinion -- Western countries.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-266) and index.
Table of contents: title: Orientalism and the Jews : an introduction / Ivan Davidson Kalmar and Derek J. Penslar; title: Jesus did not wear a turban : Orientalism, the Jews, and Christian art / Ivan Davidson Kalmar; title: Placing the Jews in late medieval English literature /; title: Suzanne Conklin Akbari; title: The use of the Jew in colonial discourse / Tudor Parfitt; title: The "Kaifeng Jew" hoax : constructing the "Chinese Jew" / Zhou Xun; title: Orientalism and the Jewish historical gaze / John M. Efron; title: To pray like a dervish : Orientalist discourse in Arnold Zweig's The face of East European Jewry / Noah Isenberg; title: Rejecting Zion, embracing the Orient : the life and death of Jacob Israel De Haan / Michael Berkowitz; title: Between East and West : Zionist revisionism as a Mediterranean ideology / Eran Kaplan; title: Orientalism and Jewish national art : the case of Bezalel / Dalia Manor; title: The Zionist return to the West and the Mizrahi Jewish perspective / Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin; title: Broadcast Orientalism : representations of Mizrahi Jewry in Israeli radio, 1948-1967 / Derek J. Penslar; title: "We're not Jews" : imagining Jewish history and Jewish bodies in contemporary multicultural literature / Sander L. Gilman.