Zweig equated loud eastern Jewish prayer with Islamic mosque worship

Evidence

Yes, prayer is still loud in the East. In each hour of praying, bit by bit, the embers from the charge toward the height of the Lord are kindled. And for superficial and Western eyes and ears, this leaves an embarrassing and tasteless impression: these relentless voices, these jolting figures, these foreign articulated, wailing, groaning melodies that storm together in a wild, screaming chorus and that resonate like the rush of a distant surge, like the shouting of a wild mass, even outside the building’s walls. Yet anyone who has been able to experience an Islamic mosque during prayer would recognize the oriental in the Jew. — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 415