Bezalel’s ‘oriental’ crafts were designed entirely for Western domestic consumption

Evidence

The objects made in these techniques, however, were unmistakably for Western users: pipes, coffee cups and saucers, sugar pincers, tea strainers, napkin rings, sugar bowls, fruit bowls, spoons, cups, flower pots, ashtrays, purses, hat pins, brooches, bracelets, jewelry boxes, cigarette cases, paper knives, stamp boxes, pencil cases, and so on. — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 604

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