A New Orient: From German Scholarship to Middle Eastern Studies in Israel

A history of knowledge transfer of Oriental Studies stretching along an axis from Germany to Palestine/Israel.

This study examines the history of Zionist academic Orientalism—referred to throughout as Oriental studies, the term contemporary English speakers would have used—in light of its German-Jewish background, as a history of knowledge transfer stretching along an axis from Germany to Palestine. The transfer, which took place primarily during the 1920s and 1930s, involved questions abo...