Orientalizing the Jew e-bog
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"e;Seeks to further our understanding of the relationship between perceptions of Jews and the reality of their existence in nineteenth-century France."e; -H-France ReviewOrientalizing 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, pers...
E-bog
127,71 DKK
Forlag
Indiana University Press
Udgivet
16 januar 2017
Genrer
1DDF
Sprog
English
Format
pdf
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9780253024343
"e;Seeks to further our understanding of the relationship between perceptions of Jews and the reality of their existence in nineteenth-century France."e; -H-France ReviewOrientalizing 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 "e;Jews of the East"e; 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."e;A well-argued, beautifully written, and intellectually stimulating investigation of representations of Middle Eastern and North African Jews by French Catholic pilgrims, writers, artists, and bureaucrats over the 19th century."e; -Maud Mandel, author of Muslims and Jews in France"e;Jews of France, nominally full citizens since the French Revolution . . . experienced uncertainty regarding whether their status would be reversed with each change of government . . . Kalman's work contributes significantly to an understanding of that insecurity, as she fleshes out the stereotypes that others, officials, artists, authors and intellectuals, projected onto the Jews living among them inside France."e; -French History