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How Do You Say Orientalism in Hebrew?

JL;DR SUMMARY Dr. Amit Levy delves into the history of Oriental studies in Israel, highlighting the significant influence of German Orientalism transplanted by Jewish scholars who fled Nazi Germany. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski.

  • At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself.
  • This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude.
  • Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from.
  • But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me.
  • And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.
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Hebrew UniversityMiddle Eastern StudiesArab Jewish RelationsPhilologyOrientalismGerman Jewish ScholarsMizrahi ExclusionAcademic NetworksPolitical DetachmentIsraeli Academic History

Places mentioned

Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv District, Israel
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Jerusalem, Israel
"And there are many other names as well. And you see sometimes that they're in touch with those scholars in Jerusalem."
Germany
"I think it's a bit hard to say because Germany was really the epicenter of Oriental studies at the time."
United Kingdom
"This is, his name was Isaac Shamosh, or Yitzhak Shamosh, and he was brought after in 1937, let's say, and he was brought after students were complaining, constantly complaining that they come to study for four years and they graduate and they still cannot make conversation in the market or somewhere."
United States
"And it changed only after World War II, how Oriental studies looked in the U.S."
Sheikh Jarrah, Jerusalem, Israel
"a person is hosting a party at his big house in the Sheikh Jarrah Nebo in Jerusalem."
Turkey
"You have Turkey, you have Italy, you have the UK."
Italy
"You have Turkey, you have Italy, you have the UK."
Cairo, Egypt
"Jerusalem, of course, wasn't the center, Middle Eastern center in any way, neither politically nor in other terms. I mean, places like Cairo and Turkey and, you know, places that were really, you know, a hotbed of Middle Eastern or Orientalist scholarship."
Damascus, Syria
"You can really see, you can really trace how these scholars in the Hebrew University, these German Jews, how they connect with intellectuals, intellectuals from Jerusalem or from Cairo, from Damascus."
Beirut, Lebanon
"You could go from Jerusalem to Cairo for a week, or to Damascus for a week, or to Beirut for a month."
Sheikh Jarrah, Jericho, Palestinian Territories
"a person is hosting a party at his big house in the Sheikh Jarrah Nebo in Jerusalem."
Jerusalem, Palestinian Territories
"And there are many other names as well. And you see sometimes that they're in touch with those scholars in Jerusalem."

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