Language:
English
Year of publication:
2012
Titel der Quelle:
At the Edges of Liberalism
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2012) 21-37
Keywords:
Jews History 1800-2000
;
Jews Identity
;
History
;
Orientalism History
;
Zionism History
;
Ashkenazim
;
Sephardim
Abstract:
Discusses the crucial role perceptions of ‘East’ and ‘West’ played in shaping the modern Jewish experience. Examines the many ways in which notions of Orientalism and Occidentalism were used against Jews, but also how they were employed by Jews themselves. Presents a colorful parade of characters from Jewish history (including Gershom Scholem, Theodor Herzl and Jacob Israel de Haan) and shows how notions of East and West were a common thread throughout modern Jewish European history. Demonstrates the ironic ways in which these opposites exerted influence on Zionism and on the conflict in the Middle East, leading to reflections on the ‘clash of civilizations’ and the work of Edward Said, but also to existential questions which remain relevant until this day and which sometimes seem to shape global politics.
Note:
Appeared previously in "Menasseh ben Israel Instituut Studies" 4 (2010). Appeared also in "Internal Outsiders - Imagined Orientals? Antisemitism, Colonialism and Modern Constructions of Jewish Identity" (2017) 11-34. Appeared in Hungarian as "A modern kor zsidó tapasztalata és a keleti kultúra szövevényes összefonódása" in "Múlt és Jövő" 1 (2011) 14-30.
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