Ivan Kalmar (born February 13, 1948) is a Canadian professor.

Early life

Soon after he was born in

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, his family moved to

Komárno Komárno, ( hu, Komárom, german: Komorn, sr, Коморан, translit=Komoran), colloquially also called ''Révkomárom, Öregkomárom, Észak-Komárom'' in Hungarian language, Hungarian; is a town in Slovakia at the confluence of the Danube an ...

, and later to

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. When he was seventeen, he left what was then

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, and eventually arrived in the

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. Kalmar's family settled down in Philadelphia.

Education

Kalmar attended

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. There he received his undergraduate degree. Moving to Toronto during the Vietnam War, he took up study at

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, where he received both a master's degree and a PhD in anthropology.

Career

Kalmar is currently a Professor of Anthropology at the

University of Toronto The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution ...

. He is a faculty member of the

Munk School of Global Affairs The Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto is an interdisciplinary academic centre with various research and educational programs committed to the field of globalization. Located in Toronto, Ontario, it offer ...

, and a fellow of Victoria College. In his recent research, the focus has been on western Christian views of Jews and Muslims. Currently, Kalmar is working on illiberalism and populism in the eastern, formerly communist-ruled areas of the European Union.

Selected bibliography

Some of the following texts are available online via the University of Toronto Library. ;Books * ''The Trotskys, Freuds, and Woody Allens: Portrait of a Culture.'' New York: Viking Press, 1994. * ''Orientalism and the Jews.'' Ed. by Ivan Davidson Kalmar and

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. Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, 2005. * ''Early Orientalism: Imagined Islam and the Notion of Sublime Power.'' London and New York: Routledge, 2014. ;Journal articles and book chapters * "The Origins of the `Spanish Synagogue' of Prague." ''Judaica Bohemiae'' 35 (1999): 158-209. * "Moorish Style: Orientalism, the Jews, and Synagogue Architecture." ''Jewish Social Studies: History, Culture, and Society'' 7.3 (2001): 68-100. * "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. * "The Future of `Tribal Man’ in the Electronic Age," ''Marshall McLuhan: Critical Evaluations in Cultural Theory.'' Ed. Gary Genosko. New York: Routledge, 2005. * "Benjamin Disraeli: Romantic Orientalist." ''Comparative Studies in History and Society'' 47.2 (2005):348-371. * "Antisemitism and Islamophobia: The Formation of a Secret," ''Human Architecture'' 7 (Spring 2009) * "Is Islam Anti-Semitic?" ''Literary Review of Canada'' (March 2011) * "Arabizing the Bible: Racial Supersessionism in Nineteenth Century Christian Art and Biblical Criticism" in Ian Netton, ed. Orientalism Revisited. London and New York: Routledge, 2012, 176-186. * "Race by Grace:Race and Religion, the Secular State, and the Construction of ‘Jew’ and ‘Arab," in

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, Jews Color Race: Rethinking Jewish Identities. London: Berghahn Press, 2013, 482-509. * “Islamophobia in Germany: East/West,” Special Issue of ''The Journal of Contemporary Studies'', guest edited with Nitzan Shoshan. * “Islamophobia in the East of the European Union,” Special Issue of ''Patterns of Prejudice'' (2018), guest editor.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kalmar, Ivan Canadian anthropologists Jewish Canadian writers Canadian people of Czech-Jewish descent Czechoslovak emigrants to Canada University of Toronto faculty Living people 1948 births Linguists of Eskaleut languages