Ivan Kalmar

Ivan Davidson Kalmar (born February 13, 1948) is a Canadian Professor of anthropology. Born in Prague, his family soon moved to Komárno, and later to Bratislava. When he was seventeen, he left what was then Czechoslovakia, and eventually arrived in the United States. Kalmar's family settled down in Philadelphia, where he attended The University of Pennsylvania. There he received his undergraduate degree. Moving to Toronto during the Vietnam War, he took up study at The University of Toronto where he received both a master's degree and a PhD in anthropology.^[1] Kalmar is currently a professor at The University of Toronto, Victoria College.^[2] His primary fields of research include: Jews and Muslims, orientalism, cultural studies, and semiotic and linguistic anthropology.^[3]

Selected Bibliography

Books:

• "Early Orientalism: Imagined Islam and the Notion of Sublime Power." London and New York: Routledge. http://www.routledge.com/9780203154809/
• "Orientalism and the Jews, ed. by Ivan Davidson Kalmar and Derek J. Penslar." (2005)
• "The Trotskys, Freuds, and Woody Allens: Portrait of a Culture." (1994)

Journal Articles and Book Chapters:

• "Is Islam Anti-Semitic?" Literary Review of Canada" (March 2011)
• "Antisemitism and Islamophobia: The Formation of a Secret," Human Architecture 7" (Spring 2009)
• “Benjamin Disraeli: Romantic Orientalist,” Comparative Studies in History and Society 47(2)" (2005)
• “The Future of `Tribal Man’ in the Electronic Age,” Marshall McLuhan: Critical Evaluations in Cultural Theory, ed. by Gary Genosko. New York: Routledge." (2005)
• “I Did Not Know You Were Jewish … and Other Things Not to Say When You Find Out,” Pam Downe and Lesley Biggs eds., Women's & Gender Studies Reader. Black Point, NS: Fernwood" (2005)
• "Moorish Style: Orientalism, the Jews, and Synagogue Architecture," Jewish Social Studies: History, Culture, and Society 7(3): 68-100." (2001)
• "The Origins of the `Spanish Synagogue' of Prague," Judaica Bohemiae 35, 158-209" (1999)

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