Orientalism, Gender, and the Jews: Literary and Artistic Transformations of European National Discourses

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Originating in the collaboration of the international Research Network “Gender in Antisemitism, Orientalism and Occidentalism” (RENGOO), this collection of essays proposes to intervene in current debates about historical constructions of Jewish identity in relation to colonialism and Orientalism. The network‌’s collaborative research addresses imaginative and aesthetic rather than sociological questions with particular focus on the function of gender and sexuality in literary, scholarly and artistic transformations of Orientalist images. RENGOO’s first publication explores the ways in which stereotypes of the external and internal Other intertwine. With its interrogation of the roles assumed in this interplay by gender, processes of sexualization, and aesthetic formations, the volume suggests new directions to the interdisciplinary study of gender, antisemitism, and Orientalism. Contributions by Ulrike Brunotte, Anna-Dorothea Ludewig, Axel Stähler, Achim Rohde, Hannah Lotte Lund, Kathrin Wittler, Hildegard Frübis, Jay Geller, Daniel Wildmann, Laurel Plapp, Yaron Peleg, Christina von Braun, Tatjana Petzer, Sarah Dornhof Table of Contents Orientalism, Gender, and the Jews. Literary and Artistic Transformations of European National Discourses Asians in Europe. Reading German-Jewish History through a Postcolonial Lens Prussians, Jews, Egyptians?. Berlin Jewish Salonières around 1800 and Their Guests. Discursive Constructions of Equality and Otherness “Good to Think”. (Re)Conceptualizing German-Jewish Orientalism Ephraim Moses Lilien. The Figure of the “Beautiful Jewess,” the Orient, the Bible, and Zionism Zionism, Colonialism, and the German Empire. Herzl’s Gloves and Mbwapwa’s Umbrella Kafka’s “Schakale und Araber” and the Question of Genre. Gleichnis, Tiergeschichte, or dialektisches Bild? Desire, Excess, and Integration. Orientalist Fantasies, Moral Sentiments, and the Place of Jews in German Society as Portrayed in Films of the Weimar Republic Jewish Drag. The Ostjude as Anti-Zionist Hero in Arnold Zweig’s De Vriendt kehrt heim Re-Orientalizing the Jew. Zionist and Contemporary Israeli Masculinities “All Jews are womanly, but no women are Jews.”. The “Femininity” Game of Deception: Female Jew, femme fatale Orientale, and belle Juive Between Orientalization and Self-Orientalization. Remarks on the Image of the “Beautiful Jewess” in Nineteenthand Early-Twentieth-Century European Literature To See or Not to See. The Gaze and Gender in the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Cultures Veils in Action. The “Oriental Other” and Its Performative Deconstruction in Modern Fashion and Art Embodied Protest. Nakedness and the Partition of Gazes Works Cited List of Contributors Index