Ivan Davidson Kalmar is a Canadian Professor of anthropology. Born in Prague

Prague

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, his family soon moved to Komárno

Komárno

Komárno is a town in Slovakia at the confluence of the Danube and the Váh rivers. Komárno was formed from part of a historical town in Hungary situated on both banks of the Danube. Following World War I, the border of the newly created Czechoslovakia cut the historical, unified town in half,...

, and later to Bratislava

Bratislava

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. When he was seventeen, he left what was then Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia or Czecho-Slovakia was a sovereign state in Central Europe which existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until 1992...

, and eventually arrived in the United States

United States

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. Kalmar's family settled down in Philadelphia, where he attended The University of Pennsylvania. There he received his undergraduate degree. Moving to Toronto during the Vietnam War, he took up study at The University of Toronto  where he received both a master's degree and a PhD in anthropology. Kalmar is currently a professor at The University of Toronto, Victoria College

Victoria College

Victoria College is or was the name of several institutions of secondary or higher education, including:* [Victoria College, Chulipuram], Sri Lanka* Victoria College, Alexandria, Egypt* Victoria College in Victoria, Texas...

. His primary fields of research include: Jews and Muslims, orientalism, cultural studies, and semiotic and linguistic anthropology.

Selected Bibliography

Books:

• "Orientalism and the Jews, ed. by Ivan Davidson Kalmar and Derek J. Penslar." (2005)
• "The Trotskys, Freuds, and Woody Allens: Portrait of a Culture." (1994)

Journal Articles and Book Chapters:

• "Is Islam Anti-Semitic?" Literary Review of Canada" (March 2011)
• "Antisemitism and Islamophobia: The Formation of a Secret," Human Architecture 7" (Spring 2009)
• “Benjamin Disraeli: Romantic Orientalist,” Comparative Studies in History and Society 47(2)" (2005)
• “The Future of `Tribal Man’ in the Electronic Age,” Marshall McLuhan: Critical Evaluations in Cultural Theory, ed. by Gary Genosko. New York: Routledge." (2005)
• “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)
• "Moorish Style: Orientalism, the Jews, and Synagogue Architecture," Jewish Social Studies: History, Culture, and Society 7(3): 68-100." (2001)
• "The Origins of the `Spanish Synagogue' of Prague," Judaica Bohemiae 35, 158-209" (1999)