ABSTRACT
The previous two chapters have addressed portrayals of Palestine by German-speaking Jews in the debate surrounding Zionism in the first half of the twentieth century. My discussion has expanded on Said’s monolithic, Christian concept of orientalism by identifying a particularly Jewish perspective on the Orient that resulted from the political movement to reclaim Palestine as a Jewish homeland. The next two chapters follow in the footsteps of Said’s own sequel to Orientalism, his book Culture and Imperialism (1993), which recognizes that the European effort to literally and figuratively colonize other lands and peoples was not limited to the Middle East, but also included Africa, parts of Asia, Australia, and the Caribbean. In this text, Said identifies the interdependence and hybridity between Europe and its Others and therefore concedes the possibility of resistance both within and without Europe against imperialism and its discourse.2 This broader framework lays the foundation for a comparative exploration of European-Jewish criticism of imperialism in other locations and contexts.
