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The Hebrew Orient
Jessica L. Carr
其他書名
Palestine in Jewish American Visual Culture, 1901-1938
出版State University of New York Press, 2020-12-01
主題Religion / Judaism / HistoryHistory / JewishSocial Science / Jewish StudiesSocial Science / Ethnic Studies / Middle Eastern Studies
ISBN14384808499781438480848
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=uib0DwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋In the decades before the establishment of the State of Israel, striking images of Palestine circulated widely among Jewish Americans. These images visualized "the Orient" for American viewers, creating the possibility for Jewish Americans to understand themselves through imagining "Oriental" counterparts. In The Hebrew Orient, Jessica L. Carr shows how images of the Holy Land made Jewish Americans feel at home in the United States by imagining "the Orient" as heritage. Carr's analyses of periodicals from Hadassah and the Zionist Organization of America, art calendars from the National Federation of Temple Sisterhoods, the Jewish Encyclopedia, and the Jewish exhibit at the 1933 World's Fair are richly illustrated. What emerges is a new understanding of the place of Orientalism in American Zionism. Creating a narrative about their origins, Jewish Americans looked east to understand themselves as Westerners.