The Hebrew Orient: Palestine in Jewish American visual culture, 1901-1938
Introduction: Reimagining Orientalism -- Envisioning Jewish Heritage -- Gender and Jewish American Visual Culture -- The Ottoman Empire, the British Mandate, and the United States -- Chapter Overview -- Chapter 1: "The Orient" as Jewish Heritage -- Archaeological Heritage in Jewish Visual...
| Résumé: | Introduction: Reimagining Orientalism -- Envisioning Jewish Heritage -- Gender and Jewish American Visual Culture -- The Ottoman Empire, the British Mandate, and the United States -- Chapter Overview -- Chapter 1: "The Orient" as Jewish Heritage -- Archaeological Heritage in Jewish Visual Culture -- Historicizing the Multiplicity of "the Orient" -- Picturing the Future through the Past -- "The Orient" in Jewish American Imagination -- Chapter 2: The Place of Relics and Pioneers: Periodicals of the Zionist Organization of America -- "Oriental" Relics and Envisioning Jewish Future -- Fitting Eastern Europe into a Vision of "the Orient" -- Constructing Difference in "the Orient": Mizrahim and Arabs -- Chalutzim as Objects of Orientalism -- Sacrifice, Spectacle, and State-Building -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3: Reviewing the Past: Jewish Art Calendars of the National Federation of Temple Sisterhoods -- Aestheticism and Space for Women -- Reclaiming Biblical Heritage through Visual Culture -- Jewish Heritage through Jewish Artwork in the NFTS Calendars -- The Debate over Zionism -- After 1938: Explicit Nationalisms -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4: Reconstructing History: The Jewish Encyclopedia -- Reconstructing the Temple -- Mapping Jerusalem: Above and Below, Ancient and Modern -- Jews from "the Orient": Eastern Europe and the Middle East -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5: Envisioning Citizenship: The Jewish Exhibit and Jewish Day at the 1933 World's Fair -- Hall of Religion -- The Romance of a People -- The Romance of a People: Jewish History -- The Romance of a People: Religion and Race in Press Reception -- The Epic of a Nation -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6: Making a Difference: Maternalism in Hadassah's "Propaganda" -- "Too Much Literature Cannot Be Distributed": Hadassah's "Propaganda" -- Envisioning Motherhood in "the Orient" from the United States -- Seeing Jewish Americanness through Jewish Children -- Conclusion. |
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| Description: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-279) and index |
| ISBN: | 1438480822 |