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begins as a European outsider,
bringing trinkets to trade with
the natives. Later, he comes to
represent their viewpoints as he
arranges their negotiations with
Mormon settlers. An observant
Jew, Carvalho refers to this
obliquely when, snowbound
in the mountains, he and his
companions finally eat their
horses, which he describes as
"strange and forbidden foods"
• In 1919, a Yiddish newspa-
per in Vilna published journalist
A. Almi's account of his travels
among the Indians of North
America, a people, he wrote,
"in golus [exile] in their own
land." Almi felt that he under-
stood them. Whites looked at
them with contempt, but he saw
himself in their plaintive songs,
expressing their messianic yearn-
ing for a republic of their own.
Decade after decade, popular
and acclaimed Jewish writers,
among them Bernard Malamud,
Howard Fast, Nathaniel West,
Joanne Greenberg and Henry
Roth, found ways to tell the
stories of Native Americans, con-
sciously or unconsciously reflect-
ing on the writers' experiences as
American Jews.
When Westerns were the high-
est-rated television shows, Jews
wrote the scripts. When revision-
ist Westerns moved to sympa-
thize with Native Americans,
Jews wrote the scripts. In this
book, Rubinstein makes sense of
the changing history of identify-
ing with the Native Americans in
efforts to negotiate our own anxi-
eties about liberal individualism
and tribalism, universalism and
particularism.
Early Zionists and their sym-
pathizers saw the Jews in Israel
as akin to Native Americans,
both peoples oppressed and
rejected by white Europeans.
Especially since 1967, Arabs
and their sympathizers on
the left have claimed that
Palestinians really resemble
Native Americans, as indigenous
people oppressed by foreigners.
Rubinstein opens her readers'
eyes to this competition to enlist
imaginary Native Americans to
convince audiences to support
these anxious political agendas.
Speaking for herself,
Rubinstein finds every effort
to recruit support from images
of other peoples "deeply sus-
pect."
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