Orientalizing the Jew: Religion, Culture, and Imperialism in Nineteenth-Century France PDF
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ORIENTALIZING the JEW THE MODERN JEWISH EXPERIENCE Deborah Dash Moore and Marsha L. Rozenblit, editors Paula Hyman, founding coeditor OR IENTALIZING the JEW Religion, Culture, and Imperialism in Nineteenth-Century France Julie Kalman Indiana University Press Bloomington and Indianapolis This book is a publication of Indiana University Press Office of Scholarly Publishing Herman B Wells Library 350 1320 East 10th Street Bloomington, Indiana 47405 USA iupress.indiana.edu © 2017 by Julie Kalman All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. The Association of American University Presses’ Resolution on Permissions consti- tutes the only exception to this prohibition. The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1992. Manufactured in the United States of America Cataloging information is available from the Library of Congress. ISBN 978-0-253-02422-0 (cloth) ISBN 978-0-253-02427-5 (paperback) ISBN 978-0-253-02434-3 (ebook) 1 2 3 4 5 22 21 20 19 18 17 To the memory of my father This page intentionally left blank Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1 Pilgrimage to the Holy Land Within 12 2 Travel and Intimacy 40 3 The Kings of Algiers 91 Conclusion 119 Notes 123 Bibliography 153 Index 167 This page intentionally left blank Acknowledgments T his book occupied eight busy years of my life, taking in one job and then another, and a move from Sydney down the East Coast of Australia, back home to Melbourne. This book began life when I was at the University of New South Wales, in the hedonistic Eastern Suburbs of Sydney. There, my colleagues Ruth Balint, Stefania Bernini, Zora Simic, Nick Doumanis, and Martyn Lyons helped me see this project through its early stages. In 2012, I moved home to Melbourne, to take up a post at Monash University. Here, Karen Auerbach, Clare Corbould, Daniella Doron, Clare Monagle, Susie Protschky, and Christina Twomey offered insights and encouragements to see the book through to its current state. I wish, also, to thank Ian Coller, Helen Davies, Peter McPhee, Pam Pilbeam, and Mau- rice Samuels, for their collegiality and generosity. Eitan Bar-Yosef cast a critical, thoughtful eye over chapter 1. Elizabeth Gralton wrestled with my occasion- ally indulgent writing, always remaining polite, and Veronica Langberg tracked down long undisturbed documents. Daniella Doron and David Feldman both read a full draft of the manuscript. Daniella’s arrival at Monash, and in Aus- tralia, has boosted the population of scholars of French-Jewish history by 100 percent, but her presence here brings benefits that cannot be quantified. David Feldman is, quite simply, scholarly generosity personified. The three anonymous readers for the press provided engaged and insightful criticisms at an important late stage. My thanks go, also, to Deborah Dash Moore, Marsha Rozenblit, and Dee Mortensen at Indiana University Press. My work is much the richer for their input. The privilege of claiming responsibility for faults and weaknesses in the text, however, remains all mine. Being a French historian in Australia makes one heavily reliant on travel funding. Vital support came from several sources, including the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences of the University of New South Wales, the Memorial Founda- tion for Jewish Culture in New York, and the Australian Research Council. Over the last eight years, equally vital support has come from Gary Rosen- garten, and my thanks go to him. Over that time, our children have grown up, through babyhood, into toddlerdom, to the almost entirely fantastic adolescents that they now are, the world at their feet. I cannot claim that they have provided support in the writing of this book, in which they have consistently demonstrated not one jot of interest, but they are a gift for which I am immeasurably grateful, every day. ix
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