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Freya Stark: Intrepid Arabian Adventurer, Ardent Jew Hater
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  Be the first of your friends to like this.Excerpt: On the one hand, I am a hopeless Anglophile. I speak and write in English; the first poems and novels I ever read were in English too. I was often among the first in Manhattan to see each new film which depicted British upper class life in the Victorian or Edwardian countryside, in sunny Italy, or in steaming, teeming, India during the days of the British Raj. I am an American. Perhaps my behavior is similar to others who have also been formerly colonized. It is no accident that filmmaker Ismail Merchant is a Muslim from India and that his script writer, German-born Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, is Jewish. (Her husband is a Zoroastrian from India). Together with Protestant-American, James Ivory, their many film ventures have satisfied the world's need for British-based romantic nostalgia e.g. Room With a View, Howard's End, The Remains of the Day, The Europeans, Maurice. Read the complete original version of this item... Related Topics: Anti-Semitism | ||||||
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