Zionist cultural institutions drew on both romantic and paternalist Victorian models

Evidence

During the first half of the twentieth century those fantasies could, as in Western orientalism in general, assume varying forms. In Dalia Manor’s piece on Boris Schatz and Jerusalem’s Bezalel Art Academy, the “Orient” is a source of aesthetic inspiration through its naive sensuality. In many ways Bezalel resembled a Pre-Raphaelite workshop, although it also contained elements of the Victorian workhouse in its emphasis on vocational training for the Jewish poor. — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 143

Categorization

• XREF: The Bezalel Academy as a Pre-Raphaelite workshop plus Victorian workhouse echoes the double face of colonial institutions in the reader’s knowledge of mission-school and craft-school histories.