Bibliograph

The Hebrew Orient, Palestine in Jewish American visual culture,1901-1938, Jessica L. Carr

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The Hebrew Orient, Palestine in Jewish American visual culture,1901-1938, Jessica L. Carr

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The Hebrew Orient

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Jessica L. Carr

Sub title

Palestine in Jewish American visual culture,1901-1938

Summary

Examines the role that images of Palestine played in the construction of prewar Jewish American identity. In the decades before the establishment of the State of Israel, striking images of Palestine circulated widely among Jewish Americans. These images visualized "the Orient" for American viewers, creating the possibility for Jewish Americans to understand themselves through imagining "Oriental" counterparts. In The Hebrew Orient, Jessica L. Carr shows how images of the Holy Land made Jewish Americans feel at home in the United States by imagining "the Orient" as heritage. Carr's analyses of periodicals from Hadassah and the Zionist Organization of America, art calendars from the National Federation of Temple Sisterhoods, the Jewish Encyclopedia, and the Jewish exhibit at the 1933 World's Fair are richly illustrated. What emerges is a new understanding of the place of Orientalism in American Zionism. Creating a narrative about their origins, Jewish Americans looked east to understand themselves as Westerners

Target audience

adult

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Palestine in Jewish American visual culture, 1901-1938

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