Orientalist romanticism and Westernist anti-Semitism
The Western visitor, wandering about Jerusalem’s streets, is bothered by Orthodox men speed-walking, pities women covered up in skirts, wigs, or huts, and grimaces in pain when haredi sensibility about modest clothing is to be respected.
Haredim in Mea Shearim 370(photo credit: Marc Israel Sellem)ByGIOVANNI QUER