Name: A New Orient: From German Scholarship to Middle Eastern Studies in Israel
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Author: Levy, Amit
ISBN: 9781684582037

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A New Orient: From German Scholarship to Middle Eastern Studies in Israel

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Physical Book

Author

Amit Levy

Publisher

Brandeis University Press

Language

English

Pages

380

Format

Hardcover

ISBN13

9781684582037

Synopsis "A New Orient: From German Scholarship to Middle Eastern Studies in Israel"

A history of knowledge transfer of Oriental Studies stretching along an axis from Germany to Palestine/Israel. This study examines the history of Zionist academic Orientalism--referred to throughout as Oriental studies, the term contemporary English speakers would have used--in light of its German-Jewish background, as a history of knowledge transfer stretching along an axis from Germany to Palestine. The transfer, which took place primarily during the 1920s and 1930s, involved questions about the re-establishment, far from Germany, of a field of knowledge with deep German roots. Like other German-Jewish scholars arriving in Palestine at the time, some of the Orientalist agents of transfer did so out of Zionist conviction as olim (immigrants making aliyah, or literally "ascending" to the homeland), while others joined them later as refugees from Nazi Germany; both groups were integrated into the institutional apparatus of the Hebrew University. Unlike other fields of knowledge or professions, however, the transfer of Orientalist knowledge was unique in that the axis involved an essential change in the nature of its encounter with the Orient: from a textual-scientific encounter at German universities, largely disconnected from contemporary issues to a living, substantive, and unmediated encounter with an essentially Arab region--and the escalating Jewish-Arab conflict in the background. Within the new context, German-Jewish Orientalist expertise was charged with political and cultural significance it had not previously faced, fundamentally influencing the course of the discipline's development in Palestine and Israel.

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