The Great Chain of Orientalism: Jewish Identity, Stigma Management, and Ethnic Exclusion in Israel
@article{Khazzoom2003TheGC, title={The Great Chain of Orientalism: Jewish Identity, Stigma Management, and Ethnic Exclusion in Israel}, author={Aziza Khazzoom}, journal={American Sociological Review}, year={2003}, volume={68}, pages={481-510} }
This paper explores the role that orientalism has played in shaping ethnic inequality among Jews in Israel. Earlier works usually explain ethnic exclusion as a function of Jewish life on Israeli territory. Here, however, exclusion is located within an earlier history of a Jewish encounter with orientalism and Western European colonialism. It is argued that prior to their immigration to Israel, Jews the world-over had been stigmatized as Oriental. Through a complex process, they accepted this…
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