A new Orient : from German scholarship to Middle Eastern studies in Israel /

"This study seeks to examine the history of Zionist academic Orientalism in light of its German-Jewish background as a history of knowledge transfer stretching along an axis from Germany to Palestine"--

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Levy, Amit (Author)
Other Authors: Makleff, Ron Mordechai (Translator)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
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Published: Waltham, Massachusetts : Brandeis University Press, [2024]
Series:Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry series (Unnumbered)
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.20479598
Table of Contents:
  • The Science of the Orient : The Beginnings of Oriental Studies at the Hebrew University
  • "With its back to the Orient?" The School of Oriental Studies and the Question of the Arab Intellectuals
  • Orient renewed : the Birth of Israeli Oriental Studies and the Diplomatic Mission
  • Epilogue : "Truly, Jerusalem has one benefit : lying within the Orient."