Abstract:

In the summer of 1957, Professor S. D. Goitein (1900–85) left Israel and relocated to the University of Pennsylvania, leaving a tenured position at the Hebrew University. Although he initially planned to return to Israel, Goitein ended up remaining in the United States until his death in 1985, emerging as one of the leading medievalists of his time. This move by Goitein aroused criticism and even resentment among several of his Israeli colleagues. They were skeptical of the formal reason he gave for his move, namely, to facilitate his work on the Cairo Geniza. Using unpublished archival sources, this article sheds new light on Goitein's move as well as his activities in the US. It focuses on Goitein's efforts to combat both anti-Israel criticism within the academy and the emerging post-colonial critique of orientalism by scholars such as the British-Palestinian A. L. Tibawi, Goitein's former colleague in Mandate Palestine. By exploring both the political context and manner in which Goitein saw his own role as a "Jewish orientalist" in America in the Cold War era, the article reveals the ways in which scholars like Goitein sought to use their expertise to address ideological and political challenges in the postwar era.

摘要：

1957 年夏天，SD Goitein 教授（1900-85）离开以色列，搬到宾夕法尼亚大学，留下了希伯来大学的终身职位。尽管他最初计划返回以色列，但戈伊因最终留在美国直到 1985 年去世，成为他那个时代的主要中世纪主义者之一。Goitein 的这一举动引起了他的几位以色列同事的批评甚至不满。他们对他提出这一举动的正式理由表示怀疑，即促进他在开罗 Geniza 上的工作。这篇文章使用未发表的档案资源，对戈伊因的举动以及他在美国的活动提供了新的启示。它专注于 Goitein' 努力打击学院内的反以色列批评以及英国巴勒斯坦人 AL Tibawi 等学者对东方主义的新兴后殖民批评，他是 Goitein 的前任巴勒斯坦任务同事。通过探讨戈伊因在冷战时期如何看待自己在美国作为“犹太东方主义者”的角色的政治背景和方式，文章揭示了像戈伊因这样的学者试图利用他们的专业知识来应对意识形态和政治挑战的方式在战后时代。