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The Hebrew Orient
Palestine in Jewish American Visual Culture, 1901-1938
Jessica L. Carr
- 313 pages
- English
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The Hebrew Orient
Palestine in Jewish American Visual Culture, 1901-1938
Jessica L. Carr
Ă propos de ce livre
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.
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Table des matiĂšres
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 âThe Orientâ as Jewish Heritage
- Chapter 2 The Place of Relics and Pioneers: Periodicals of the Zionist Organization of America
- Chapter 3 Reviewing the Past: Jewish Art Calendars of the National Federation of Temple Sisterhoods
- Chapter 4 Reconstructing History: The Jewish Encyclopedia
- Chapter 5 Envisioning Citizenship: The Jewish Exhibit and Jewish Day at the 1933 Worldâs Fair
- Chapter 6 Making a Difference: Maternalism in Hadassahâs âPropagandaâ
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Back Cover