Turkish immigrants and German Jews traded places in the national imagination

Evidence

The irony is double-edged: the “orientals” (i.e., the Turks) are simultaneously becoming Germans as the Jews are becoming Israelis. They are becoming Israelis because the project of their becoming Germans failed horribly. — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 771

Categorization

• QUESTION: Is there a symmetric historical argument that German Jews’ Zionism mirrors the orientalization of Turks in Germany? Worth chasing the parallel.
• XREF: connects to: Wealthy German Jews saw themselves as fully German until forced out in the 1930s