Bibliograph

Orientalizing the Jew, religion, culture, and imperialism in nineteenth-century France, Julie Kalman

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Label

Orientalizing the Jew, religion, culture, and imperialism in nineteenth-century France, Julie Kalman

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Orientalizing the Jew

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Julie Kalman

Series statement

The modern Jewish experience

Sub title

religion, culture, and imperialism in nineteenth-century France

Summary

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

Target audience

adult

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