TY - BOOK ED - Kalmár, Ivan Davidson ED - Penslar, Derek Jonathan PY - 2005 DA - 2005// TI - Orientalism and the Jews T3 - Tauber series for the study of European Jewry ET - 1. ed. PB - Brandeis Univ. Press CY - Waltham, Mass. KW - Orientalism KW - History KW - Orientalism in art KW - Orientalism in literature KW - Jews KW - Jews in art KW - Jews in literature KW - Public opinion KW - Western countries AB - Verlagsinfo: A fascinating analysis of how Jews fit into scholarly debates about Orientalism. At the turn of the twenty-first century, in spite of growing globalization there remains in the world a split between the West and the rest. The manner in which this split has been imagined and represented in Western civilization has been the subject of intense cross-disciplinary scrutiny, much of it under the rubric of "orientalism." This debate, sparked by the 1978 publication of Edward Said’s Orientalism identifies the "Orient" as the Islamic world and to a lesser extent Hindu India. "Orientalism" signifies the way the West imagined this terrain. Going beyond Said’s framework, in their introduction to the volume, Kalmar and Penslar argue that orientalism is based on the Christian West’s attempts to understand and manage its relations with both of its monotheistic Others - Muslims and Jews. According to the editors, Jews have almost always been present whenever occidentals talked about or imagined the East; and the Western image of the Muslim Orient has been formed and continues to be formed in inextricable conjunction with Western perceptions of the Jewish people. Bringing together essays by an array of international scholars in a wide range of disciplines, Orientalism and the Jews demonstrates that, since the Middle Ages, Jews have been seen in the Western world as both occidental and oriental. Jews formed the model for medieval depictions of Muslim warriors. Representations of biblical Jews in early modern Europe provided essential sustenance for Western fictions about the Muslim world. And many of the Western protagonists of imperialism "discovered" real or imaginary Jews wherever their expeditions took them. Today orientalist attitudes by Israelis target not only Arabs but also the mizrahi ("oriental") Israelis with roots in the Arab world as Others. SN - 1584654104 LA - English N1 - edited by Ivan Davidson Kalmar and Derek J. Penslar ID - 1614515883 ER -