Orientalism And The Jews

Acknowledgments xi Orientalism and the Jews: An Introduction xiii Ivan Davidson Kalmar and Derek J. Penslar 1. Jesus Did Not Wear a Turban: Orientalism, the Jews, and Christian Art 3(29) Ivan Davidson Kalmar 2. Placing the Jews in Late Medieval English Literature 32(19) Suzanne Conklin Akbari 3. The Use of the Jew in Colonial Discourse 51(17) Tudor Parfitt 4. The "Kaifeng Jew" Hoax: Constructing the "Chinese Jew" 68(12) Zhou Xun 5. Orientalism and the Jewish Historical Gaze 80(14) John M. Efron 6. To Pray Like a Dervish: Orientalist Discourse in Arnold Zweig's The Face of East European Jewry 94(15) Noah Isenberg 7. Rejecting Zion, Embracing the Orient: The Life and Death of Jacob Israel De Haan 109(16) Michael Berkowitz 8. Between East and West: Zionist Revisionism as a Mediterranean Ideology 125(17) Eran Kaplan 9. Orientalism and Jewish National Art: The Case of Bezalel 142(20) Dalia Manor 10. The Zionist Return to the West and the Mizrahi Jewish Perspective 162(20) Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin 11. Broadcast Orientalism: Representations of Mizrahi Jewry in Israeli Radio, 1948-1967 182(19) Derek I. Penslar 12. "We're Not Jews": Imagining Jewish History and Jewish Bodies in Contemporary Multicultural Literature 201(21) Sander L. Gilman Notes 222(44) Contributors 266(3) Index 269