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Author Kalman, Julie, 1969- author.

Title Orientalizing the Jew : religion, culture, and imperialism in nineteenth-century France / Julie Kalman
Published Bloomington ; Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, [2017]
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Description 1 online resource (x, 172 pages)
Series The modern Jewish experience
Modern Jewish experience (Bloomington, Ind.)
Contents Pilgrimage to the Holy Land within -- Travel and intimacy -- The Kings of Algiers
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 01, 2017)
Subject Jews -- Palestine -- History -- 19th century
Jews -- Algeria -- History -- 19th century
Mizrahim -- Public opinion
Jews, Algerian -- Public opinion
Public opinion -- France
Orientalism -- France
1800-1899.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
HISTORY -- Europe -- France.
Ethnic relations
Jews
Orientalism
Public opinion
SUBJECT France -- Ethnic relations
Subject Algeria
France
Middle East -- Palestine
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2016046908
ISBN 9780253024343
025302434X