Nazi-era refugee scholars transplanted German Orientalist philology into modern Israel
Evidence
Many of Israel’s leading Orientalists came to Israel as refugees from the rise of Nazism and thus the old German tradition of Orientalist scholarship has been perpetuated in modern Israel. Israeli Arabists have combined the Germanic tradition of philological exactitude with the rabbinic tradition of discriminating exegesis and interpretation. — Robert Irwin, For Lust of Knowing, 489
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- Israeli academia retains the racial discourse Euro-American Orientalism has since shed. (similarity 0.79)
- Israeli academia continually refreshes its Western colonial thought structure through exchange programs (similarity 0.78)
- German Orientalists led the field despite Germany having no Arab empire. (similarity 0.78)
- Early German Jewish migrants to Palestine often remained permanently alienated from yishuv society (similarity 0.78)
- Jewish orientalists studied Islam free of Europe’s civilizing-imperial mindset. (similarity 0.78)