Orientalism for the nation: Jews and oriental scholarship in modern Hungary
[Thesis]
Katalin Franciska Rac
University of Florida
2014
390
Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-369-42070-8
Ph.D.
History
University of Florida
2014
"Orientalism For The Nation: Jews and Oriental Scholarship in Modern Hungary" reconstructs the careers of three world-famous Hungarian Jewish orientalists: the Turkologist Armin Vambery (1832-1913), the Arab philologist and Islamicist Ignaz Goldziher (1850-1921), and the Sanskritist and archeologist Aurel Stein (1862-1943). An examination of their Hungarian academic milieu and social circumstances reveals the interconnected development of Oriental scholarship and the modern Hungarian national identity discourse. This dissertation examines the ways in which these Jewish scholars actively participated in both, and, therefore, opens a window to different Jewish attitudes toward Jewish integration in modern Hungary.
European history; Modern history; Judaic studies
Social sciences;History of origins;Hungary;Jewish history;Linguistics;Orientalism;Philology