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The Hebrew Orient : Palestine in Jewish American visual culture, 1901-1938 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Carr, Jessica L. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2020]
Subjects:
Jews > United States > Attitudes toward Israel.
Palestine.
Orientalism.
Visual communication.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.