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1 online resource (xiv, 299 pages) : illustrations, facsimiles |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-279) and index. |
| Contents |
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 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 |
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"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 |
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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." |
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"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 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Archives -- Periodicals -- Published Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Index |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Jews -- United States -- Attitudes toward Israel.
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Jews. |
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United States. |
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Palestine.
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Visual communication.
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Visual communication. |
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Orientalism.
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Orientalism. |
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Jews -- Attitudes toward Israel. |
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Middle East -- Palestine. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Palestine in Jewish American visual culture, 1901-1938 |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Carr, Jessica L. Hebrew Orient. Albany : State University of New York Press, [2020] 1438480830 (OCoLC)1154560323 |
| ISBN |
1438480849 ebook |
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9781438480848 ebook |
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1438480830 |
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9781438480831 |
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