Orientalism and the Jews / edited by Ivan Davidson Kalmar and Derek J. Penslar. - Waltham, Mass. : Hanover : Brandeis University Press ; University Press of New England, 2005. - xl, 285 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. - The Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jews series . - Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry series (Unnumbered) .

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

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.

9781584654117

2004017416


Orientalism--History.
Orientalism in art.
Orientalism in literature.
Jews--History.
Jews in art.
Jews in literature.
Jews--Public opinion.
Public opinion--Western countries.

DS61.85 / .O753 2005

909/.04924