 | Orientalism and the Hebrew Imagination Subjects: Hebrew literature Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Orientalism in literature; Jewish-Arab relations in literature; Zionism; Frischmann David 1859–1922. Ba-midbar; Srnilansky Moshe 1874–1953. Bene ’Arav; Arieli L. A. 1886–1943. Allah; Calling into question prevailing notions about Orientalism, Yaron Peleg shows how the paradoxical mixture of exoticism and familiarity with which Jews related to Palestine at the beginning of the twentieth century shaped the legacy of Zionism. In... Yaron Peleg is Assistant Professor of Hebrew at George Washington University. He is the author of Derekh Gever . |
