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Orientalizing the Jew: Religion, Culture, and Imperialism in Nineteenth-Century France

Orientalizing the Jew: Religion, Culture, and Imperialism in Nineteenth-Century France

Kalman, Julie

Hardcover

Series: Modern Jewish Experience

AnthropologyFrench HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0253024226
ISBN13: 9780253024220
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: Jan 16 2017
Pages: 186
Weight: 0.98
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Orientalizing the Jew shows how French travelers depicted Jews in the Orient and then brought these ideas home to orientalize Jews living in their homeland during the 19th century. Julie Kalman draws on narratives, personal and diplomatic correspondence, novels, and plays to show how the Jews of the East featured prominently in the minds of the French and how they challenged ideas of the familiar and the exotic. Portraits of the Jewish community in Jerusalem, romanticized Jewish artists, and the wealthy Sephardi families of Algiers come to life. These accounts incite a necessary conversation about Jewish history, the history of anti-Jewish discourses, French history, and theories of Orientalism in order to broaden understandings about Jews of the day.

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