Zionist discourse on Mizrahi Jews recycled the Enlightenment’s program for engineering Ashkenazic Jews.

Evidence

The oriental Jew was, then, the object of a discourse of degeneration, regeneration, and assimilation, a conceptual field that originated in the European Enlightenment’s critique of Ashkenazic Jewry and program for its alteration through social and cultural engineering. — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 727 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Israel’s discourse on Middle Eastern Jews inherited the Enlightenment’s program for engineering Ashkenazic Jewry. — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 727; Zionist scholarship reduced oriental Jews to objects then erased them; Zionist scholarship studied Mizrahi Jews only as objects until absorbing them into its plans. — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 654 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Israel’s discourse on Middle Eastern Jews inherited the Enlightenment’s program for engineering Ashkenazic Jewry. #corroborates (0.97) — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 727