Introduction: Reimagining Orientalism
Envisioning Jewish Heritage
Gender and Jewish American Visual Culture
The Ottoman Empire, the British Mandate, and the United States
Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: "The Orient" as Jewish Heritage
Archaeological Heritage in Jewish Visual Culture
Historicizing the Multiplicity of "the Orient"
Picturing the Future through the Past
"The Orient" in Jewish American Imagination
Chapter 2: The Place of Relics and Pioneers: Periodicals of the Zionist Organization of America
"Oriental" Relics and Envisioning Jewish Future
Fitting Eastern Europe into a Vision of "the Orient"
Constructing Difference in "the Orient": Mizrahim and Arabs
Chalutzim as Objects of Orientalism
Sacrifice, Spectacle, and State-Building
Conclusion
Chapter 3: Reviewing the Past: Jewish Art Calendars of the National Federation of Temple Sisterhoods
Aestheticism and Space for Women
Reclaiming Biblical Heritage through Visual Culture
Jewish Heritage through Jewish Artwork in the NFTS Calendars
The Debate over Zionism
After 1938: Explicit Nationalisms
Conclusion
Chapter 4: Reconstructing History: The Jewish Encyclopedia
Reconstructing the Temple
Mapping Jerusalem: Above and Below, Ancient and Modern
Jews from "the Orient": Eastern Europe and the Middle East
Conclusion
Chapter 5: Envisioning Citizenship: The Jewish Exhibit and Jewish Day at the 1933 World's Fair
Hall of Religion
The Romance of a People
The Romance of a People: Jewish History
The Romance of a People: Religion and Race in Press Reception
The Epic of a Nation
Conclusion
Chapter 6: Making a Difference: Maternalism in Hadassah's "Propaganda"
"Too Much Literature Cannot Be Distributed": Hadassah's "Propaganda"
Envisioning Motherhood in "the Orient" from the United States
Seeing Jewish Americanness through Jewish Children
Conclusion.