Examines the discourses and experiences associated with space and place in contemporary Israel.
This volume explores various processes associated with constructing what has variously been called ‘The Holy Land, ‘ ‘Eretz Israel, ‘ ‘Zion, ‘ Palestine, ‘ or ‘Israel.’ The contributors focus on ways the landscapes of Israel figure in creating and recreating the identity, presence, and history of groups living there. The book critiques the assumptions lying at the base of various spatial practices related to Zionism. It does this through both a theoretical examination and a focus on hitherto little explored phenomena such as pilgrimages of Israelis to their (or their relatives’) native lands abroad, the establishment of Jewish saints’ tombs in Israel, the design of Kibbutz museums, country hikes, and conceptions of territory in mixed (Jewish-Arab) communities.
Tabella dei contenuti
Introduction
Eyal Ben-Ari and Yoram Bilu
1 To Morocco and Back: Tourism and Pilgrimage among Moroccan-Born Israelis
André Levy
2 Gravesites and Memorials of Libyan Jews: Alternative Versions of the Sacralization of Space in Judaism
Harvey E. Goldberg
3 Saints’ Sanctuaries in Israeli Development Towns: On a Mechanism of Urban Transformation
Eyal Ben-Ari and Yoram Bilu
4 The Presence of Absence: The Memorialism of National Death in Israel
Don Handelman and Lea Shamgar-Handelman
5 Tiyul (Hike) as an Act of Consecration of Space
Orit Ben-David
6 Remaking Place: Cultural Production in Israeli Pioneer Settlement Museums
Tamar Katriel
7 In and Out of Territory
Dan Rabinowitz
8 The Double Site of Israel
Zali Gurevitch
9 A Response from New York: Return of the Repressed?
Jonathan Boyarin
Epilogue (Three Years Later)
Yoram Bilu and Eyal Ben-Ari
Contributors
Index
Circa l’autore
Eyal Ben-Ari is Associate Professor and Yoram Bilu is Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Ben-Ari has also written Changing Japanese Suburbia: A Study of Two Present-Day Localities; Organization and Culture in Japanese Children: An Interpretive Study; and Body Projects in Japanese Childcare: Culture, Organization and Emotions in a Preschool. Bilu is the author of Without Bounds: The Life and Death of Rabbi Ya’acov Wazana.
Altri ebook dello stesso autore / Editore
230.335 Ebook in questa categoria
