Middle East Quarterly, September 22nd, 2006
Orientalism and the Hebrew Imagination. By Yaron Peleg. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005. 153 pp. $35.
As the specter of Edward Said's Orientalism persists in casting a defining imprint on Middle East studies, Peleg argues that Said's conception of Orientalism, the study by Westerners of the East, does not apply to European Jews, whose own view of the East was sui generis. Surveying various Zionist texts published during the last finde-siecle and then the early twentieth century, Peleg demonstrates that many Zionist authors viewed the Orient not as a force to be colonized and extingui...
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