ID | 158065 |
Title Proper | East sees east |
Other Title Information | the image of Jews from Islamic countries in the Jewish discourse of interwar Poland |
Language | ENG |
Author | Magdalena Kozłowska ; Kozłowska, Magdalena |
Summary / Abstract (Note) | This article explores travel pieces on Jews in Islamic countries published in the Jewish press (in Yiddish and Polish) in interwar Poland. It argues that many of the strategies of representation that Polish–Jewish journalists employed to describe the Jews of Islamic countries during this time borrow from the way the Jews of Eastern Europe were perceived. Turning the Western gaze on the Orient served Eastern European Jewish intellectuals as an act of multiple redemption. Finding themselves in between modern and traditional identification, Polish–Jewish journalists decided to ensure their belonging to the world which they saw as civilised by transposing concepts they knew from home. |
`In' analytical Note | Middle Eastern Studies Vol. 54, No.1; Jan 2018: p.114-127 |
Journal Source | Middle Eastern Studies Vol: 54 No 1 |
Key Words | Jews ; Islamic Countries ; East sees East ; Jewish Discourse ; Interwar Poland |