Orientalism and the Hebrew Imagination / / Yaron Peleg.
Calling into question prevailing notions about Orientalism, Yaron Peleg shows how the paradoxical mixture of exoticism and familiarity with which Jews related to Palestine at the beginning of the twentieth century shaped the legacy of Zionism. In Peleg's view, the tension between romancing the...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©2005 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (166 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Orientalism and the Jews: Paradoxes of Time, Place, and Culture
- 2. Staging a Hebrew Renaissance: The Hebrew Bible as an Orientalist Text
- 3. Out of the Book and into the Desert: The Invention of a Native Hebrew,: Culture in Palestine
- 4. A Jewish Noble Savage? The Limits of Cultural Innovation
- Conclusion: The Legacy of Hebrew Oriental ism
- Selected Bibliography
- Index