Buber and Zweig both attributed a motorized quality to oriental Jews

Evidence

Like Buber before him, Zweig notes a “motorized” quality of the oriental and/or eastern Jew at prayer—what Buber, in his address of 1912 “Der Geist des Orients und das Judentum” [The spirit of the Orient and Judaism], referred to as the “motor character” of the oriental and the Jew. — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 432

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader German-language intellectual discourse on ‘the Orient’ and to Buber’s mystical nationalism.