Refereed Scholarly Publications

Books

(Sole author monographs)

2022                Ivan Kalmar, White But Not Quite: Central Europe’s Illiberal Revolt.

Bristol: Bristol University Press.

2025               Hakujin ni narenai hakujintachi: Chūō no han-riberarizumu to reishizumu. Japanese translation of White But Not Quite (2022). Tokyo: Sairyusha.

2026               Weiß aber nicht ganz. Ost-Mitteleuropas Illiberale Revolte. Revised German translation of White But Not Quite (2022). Vienna: Konturen Verlag.

2024               Ivan Kalmar, Bílí, ale netak docela. Středoevropská iliberální revolta.

Prague: Utopia Libri. Czech translation of White But Not Quite (2022)

2014               Ivan Kalmar. Early Orientalism: Imagined Islam and the Notion of

Sublime Power. London and New York: Routledge.(Originally published in hard copy: 2013.)

2003               Ivan Davidson Kalmar. Word, Culture, Image: Notes on Linguistic and Semiotic Anthropology, 2nd. ed., Toronto: Quirk Press. [Textbook]

1994               Ivan Kalmar. The Trotskys, Freuds, and Woody Allens: Portrait of a Culture, Toronto: Penguin (paperback edition of 1993 Viking hardcover).

1993               Ivan Kalmar. The Trotskys, Freuds, and Woody Allens: Portrait of a Culture, Toronto: Viking.

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(Co-edited anthologies)

2022               Ivan Kalmar and Nitzan Shoshan, eds., Racism in Contemporary Germany: Islamophobia in East and West. Abington, Oxon. and New York: Routledge

2005               Ivan Kalmar and Derek J. Penslar, eds. Orientalism and the Jews.

Hannover, NH: University Press of New England.

Journal Articles

Forthcoming      Guest editor, “’Central Europe’: A European Ideal,” Nationalities Papers, Special Issue accepted for publication

Forthcoming      “Central Europe”: An Introduction, Nationalities Papers.

Forthcoming “Central (And Not Eastern) Europe as an Elite Construction: Class, Race, and Peripherality.” Nationalities Papers.

Forthcoming      Guest editor, “Illiberalism and Peripheralization: The East and South of the European Union,” Comparative European Politics, Special Issue accepted for publication.

Forthcoming      “Illiberalism and Peripheralization: The East and South of the European Union. Introduction.” Comparative European Politics.

Forthcoming      “Illiberalism, Geopolitics and Class Alliance: At the Eastern and Southern Peripheries of the European Union.” Comparative European Politics.

Forthcoming       “The Eternal Peasant: Region and Class as Factors in Racializing Eastern and Southern Europeans.” In Salvatore Giusto and Francesca Zantedeschi (eds.), History Repeating: European Populism and Cultural Production in a Trans-Historical Perspective. Lago, Italy: Il Sileno.

2025               Review of We have never been woke: The cultural contradictions of a new elite by Musa al-Gharbi, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. American Ethnologist.

2023               Ivan Kalmar and Aleksandra Lewicki, guest editors, Race, Racialization, and the East of the European Union (Special Issue), Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.

2023               “Race and Racialization in the East of the European Union: An

Introduction.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 49(6), 1465-1480. DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.2022.2154909.

2023               “White But Not Quite: Central Europe’s Illiberal Revolt. A Rejoinder.”

Cultural Sociology 1(8). Online first publication, Dec. 2023. Forthcoming in print. Part of the journal’s book forum on White But Not Quite.

2023               “Race in Central Europe: A Rejoinder.” Czech Journal of International Relations 58(3), 171-179. Part of the journal’s book forum on White But Not Quite.

2023               Kalmar, Ivan, Aliaksei Kazharski, Daria Krivonos, Stephanie Rudwick,

and Gábor Scheiring. 2023. “Book Forum on Ivan Kalmar’s White but

Not Quite: Central Europe’s Illiberal Revolt.” Czech Journal of International Relations 58 (3): 133–184. https://doi.org/10.32422/cjir.824.

2022               “Culture Wars Eastern Style,” Review of Central European Culture Wars: Beyond Populism and Post-Communism, ed. by Pavel Barša, Zora Hesová, and Ondrej Slačálek, Prague: Charles University Press, 2021. Patterns of Prejudice 55 (4), September 2022.

2020               “Zwischen Putin und Trump: Orbáns Illiberale Demokratie und das Spektakel des Sports in Ostmitteleuropa,” Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen 33 (3): 571–86. (“Between Putin and Trump: Orbán’s Illiberal Democracy and the Spectacle of Sport in East Central

Europe.” German.)

2020               “Inclusive Nationhood: Reflections on Tariq Modood’s Essays on Secularism and Multiculturalism” (London and New York: ECPR Press, 2019). ReOrient.

2020               Ivan Kalmar and Nitzan Shoshan, guest editors, Islamophobia in Germany: East and West (Special Issue), Journal of Contemporary European Studies 28 (1).

2020               Ivan Kalmar and Nitzan Shoshan, “Islamophobia in Germany: East and West. An Introduction.” Journal of Contemporary European Studies 28 (1): 1-14.

2020               “The East is Just Like the West, Only More So: Islamophobia and Populism in Eastern Germany and the East of the European Union.” Journal of Contemporary European Studies 28 (1): 15-29.

2020               “Islamophobia and Anti-Anti-Semitism: The Case of Hungary and the

‘Soros plot’.” Patterns of Prejudice 60 (1). 1-18.

2019               “The Jew and the Odalisque: Two Tropes Lost on the Way from Orientalism to Islamophobia.” ReOrient: The Journal of Critical Muslim Studies 4 (2), 181-96.

2018               Ivan Kalmar, Christopher Stevens, and Nicholas Worby, “Twitter, Gab, and Racism: The Case of the Soros Myth.” Proceedings, 8th Social Media and Society Conference, Copenhagen 2018.

2018               Guest editor, Islamophobia in the East of the European Union (Special Issue), Patterns of Prejudice.

2018               “Islamophobia in the East of the European Union: An Introduction.”

Patterns of Prejudice 52(5), 389–405.

2018               “Antisemitism and Islamophobia, Not Only in Eastern Europe.”

Connections (Leipzig).

2018               “’The Battlefield Is in Brussels’: Islamophobia in the Visegrád Four in Its Global Context.” Patterns of Prejudice 52(5), 406–19.

2018               Review of Antisemitism and Islamophobia: A Shared Story? (London: Palgrave Macmillan 2017). The Sociological Review June 29, 2018, available at https://www.thesociologicalreview.com/blog/book-

review-antisemitism-and-islamophobia-in-europe-a-shared-story-edited-by-james-renton-and-ben-gidley.html.

2018               Review of Orientalizing the Jew: Religion, Culture, and Imperialism in Nineteenth-Century France. (Bloomington, ID: Indiana University Press, 2017), The English Historical Review 133 (Issue 565),

December 2018, 1636–1638.

2009               “Antisemitism and Islamophobia: The Formation of a Secret,” Human Architecture, 7(2), 135-144.

2005               “Benjamin Disraeli: Romantic Orientalist.” Comparative Studies in

History and Society 47(2): 348-371.

2001               "Moorish Style: Orientalism, the Jews, and Synagogue Architecture," Jewish Social Studies: History, Culture, and Society 7(3): 68-100.

2001               "Orientalism and Synagogue Architecture in Europe and North America," Cargo (Journal of the Czech Anthropological Society), 40-79.

1999               "The Origins of the `Spanish Synagogue' of Prague," Judaica Bohemiae 35, 158-209.

1987               Ivan Kalmar, Zhong Yong, and Xiao Hong, “Language Attitudes in

Guangzhou, China,” Language in Society 16, 499-508.

1987               “The Völkerpsychologie of Lazarus and Steinthal and the Modern Concept of Culture,” Journal of the History of Ideas 48(4):671- 690.

1987               “Jews on the Train,” Journal of Popular Culture 21, 139- 154. 1987      “The computer literacy credo.” Interchange 18(1/2):164- 171.

1983               Ivan Kalmar and Dionisius Agius, “Topic, Cataphora, and VS order in

Maltese,” Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik.

1981               Ivan Kalmar and Dionisius Agius, “Verb-Subject Order in Maltese,“

Journal of Maltese Studies 14:22-31.

1978               “Reply to Klokeid and Arima,” Inuit Studies 2:107-8, 1978. 1977         “The antipassive in Inuktitut,” Inuit Studies 1: 129-42, 1977.

Chapters in Edited Books

Forthcoming “Als Europas Juden „orientalisch“ aussahen” [“When Europe’s Jews Looked Oriental”], catalogue entry for the exhibition, “Colors,” Jewish Museum of Vienna.

Forthcoming Entry on Isaac D’Israeli’s Mejnoun and Leila, for the Cambridge Guide to the Eighteenth-Century Novel, 1660-1820, ed. by April London.

Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press.

2024               Ivan Kalmar, “Epilogue,” in Migration and Race, by Kasia Narkowicz, Anna Gawlewicz, and Konrad Pędziwiatr. London: Routledge, 126–33. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003404040-9.

2024               Ivan Kalmar, “Islamophobia Without Muslims? Not Only in Eastern Europe” in Global Islamophobia in an Era of Populism, ed. by Sahar Aziz and John Esposito. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.

2021               Ivan Kalmar, “Orientalism” in Sol Goldberg, Scott Ury, and Keith Ian Weiser, eds., Key Concepts in the Study of Antisemitism. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 187-200.

2021               Ivan Kalmar, “Inclusive Nationhood: Reflections on

Tariq Modood's Essays on Secularism and Multiculturalism,” ReOrient 6(2): 208-13.

2019               Ivan Kalmar. “Orientalism and the Bible,” in Orientalism and Literature, ed. Geoffrey P. Nash. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 133-48. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108614672.008

2017               Ivan Kalmar, “Jews and Muslims,” in The Cambridge History of Judaism, ed. Mitchell B. Hart and Tony Michels, (Cambridge University Press, 2017), Volume 8: The Modern Period (c. 1815-2000), 1093-1117. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139019828.041.

2016               Ivan Kalmar and Tariq Ramadan, “Antisemitism and Islamophobia,” in Yousef Meri. ed., Routledge Handbook of Muslim-Jewish Relations. New York and London: Routledge, 351-371.

2016               “Orientalism.” Entry in the Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World, 2nd edition, ed. Richard C. Martin, Daniel M. Varisco, Ali Banuazizi, and Asma Afsaruddin. 2 vols. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA.

2016               “Jews, Cousins Of Arabs: Orientalism, Race, Nation, And Pan-Nation In The Long Nineteenth Century,” in Emmanuel Nathan and Anya Topolski, eds., Is There a Judeo-Christian Tradition? A European Perspective. Berlin: de Gruyter Mouton, 55-75.

2015               “Early Orientalism and the Jews: Baroque Ethnography and Johann Jakob Schudt’s Jewish Memorabilia,” in Christoph Cluse and Rebekka Voß, eds., Frankfurt’s “Jewish Notabilia” (‘Jüdische Merckwürdigkeiten’): Ethnographic Views of Urban Jewry

in Central Europe around 1700; special issue of Frankfurter Judaistische Beiträge 40 (2015), 63-76.

2013               “Race By Grace: Race and Religion, the Secular State, and the Construction of ‘Jew’ and ‘Arab,” in Efraim Sicher, ed. Jews Color Race: Rethinking Jewish Identities. London: Berghahn Press, 482-509.

2012               “Arabizing the Bible: Racial Supersessionism in Nineteenth Century Christian Art and Biblical Criticism” in Ian Netton, ed. Orientalism Revisited. London and New York: Routledge, 176-186.

2011               “The Turks of Prague: The Mundane and the Sublime” in Burkhard Schnepel and Hanne Schönig, eds., Orient-Orientalistik-Orientalismus: Geschichte und Aktualität einer Debatte, Bielefeld (Germany): transcript Verlag, 265-278.

2005               Ivan Kalmar and Derek J. Penslar. "Orientalism and the Jews: An

Introduction” in Ivan Davidson Kalmar and Derek J. Penslar, eds.,

Orientalism and the Jews (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England), xiii-xl.

2005               "Jesus Did Not Wear a Turban: Orientalism, the Jews, and Christian Art," in Ivan Davidson Kalmar and Derek J. Penslar, eds., Orientalism and the Jews (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England), 3-31.

2005               “The Future of `Tribal Man’ in the Electronic Age,” in Gary Genosko, ed., Marshall McLuhan: Critical Evaluations in Cultural Theory. (New York: Routledge.) [Reprint, in a refereed publication, of a non-refereed 1984 article – see below]

2005               “I Did Not Know You Were Jewish … and Other Things Not to Say When You Find Out,” in Pam Downe and Lesley Biggs eds., Women's & Gender Studies Reader. Black Point, NS: Fernwood. [Revision of an earlier article in another publication, listed below.]

2004               "The Houkah in the Harem: On Smoking and Orientalist Art," in Sander

L. Gilman and Zhou Xun, eds., Smoking. (London: Reaktion Press), 218-229.

2002               "Steinthal, the Jewish Orientalist," in Hartwig Wiedebach and Annette Winkelmann, eds., Chajim H. Steinthal: Linguist and Philosopher in the 19th Century. (Leiden, Boston, Cologne: Brill), 135-52.

2001               "I didn't know you were Jewish ... and Other Things Not to Say When You Find Out," in Carl James and Adrienne Shadd, eds., Encounters: Essays in Culture, Identity and Values. (Toronto: Between the Lines Press, 2nd ed.) (First ed. 1995.)

1991               “Chaplin: The Little Jew and ‘The Great Dictator’,” in Adolphe Nysenholc, ed., Charlie Chaplin: His reflection in modern times (Approaches to semiotics, vol. 101). (Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter), 131-137.

1985               “Are there really no primitive languages?” in David Olson, N. Torrance, and Angela Hildyard, The Nature and Consequences of Literacy (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press).

1983                “Transitivity in a Czech Folk Tale,” in Paul J. Hopper and Sandra A. Thompson, eds., Studies in Transitivity. (New York, Academic Press), 241-259.

1982                 “The function of verb modes in Inuktitut narrative texts,” in Paul J. Hopper, ed., Tense-Aspect: Between Semantics and Pragmatics (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins B.V), 117-143.

1979               “The antipassive and grammatical relations in Eskimo,” in Ergativity, ed. by Frans Plank (London, etc.: Academic Press).

1979               W.J. Samarin and Ivan Kalmar, “Evaluational reactions to foreign accent among immigrants in Toronto,” in J. Orenstein and W.F. Mackey, eds., Sociolinguistic Studies in Language Contact. ( The Hague, etc.: Mouton.)

Recent Non-Refereed Publications

2025              Accompanying text for Ancestry, EP album by Jemek Jemowit. Berlin: Aufnahme und Wiedernahme.

2025              “The clash between Canada and America is about nationhood – but it’s also about what each country now represents.” The Globe and Mail, May 20, op-ed.

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