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Title Grasping land : space and place in contemporary Israeli discourse and experience / edited by Eyal Ben-Ari and Yoram Bilu
Published Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1997

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 246 pages) : maps
Series SUNY series in anthropology and Judaic studies
SUNY series in anthropology and Judaic studies.
Contents To Morocco and back : tourism and pilgrimage among Morocca-born Israelis / André Levy -- Gravesites and memorials of Libyan Jews : alternative versions of the sacralization of space in Judaism / Harvey E. Goldberg -- Saints' sanctuaries in Israeli development towns : on a mechanism of urban transformation / Eyal Ben-Ari and Yoram Bilu -- The presence of absence : the memorialism of national death in Israel / Don Handelman and Lea Shamgar-Handelman -- Tiyul (Hike) as an act of consecration of space / Orit Ben-David -- Remaking place : cultural production in Israeli pioneer settlement museums / Tamar Katriel -- In and out of territory / Dan Rabinowitz -- The double site of Israel / Zali Gurevitch -- A response from New York : return of the repressed? / Jonathan Boyarin -- Epilogue (Three years later) / Yoram Bilu and Eyal Ben-Ari
Summary Annotation Nine essays, a substantial introduction, and a brief postscript explore the construction of what has been called the Holy Land, Eretz Israel, Zion, Palestine, and Israel, focusing on how landscapes figure into the creation and recreation of the identity, presence, and history of groups living there. Critiques some assumptions of Zionism by examining such phenomena as pilgrimages by Israelis to their 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. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject National characteristics, Israeli.
Jewish shrines -- Israel
Sacred space -- Israel
Land use -- Israel
Zionism.
Israelis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography.
Israelis
Jewish shrines
Land use
National characteristics, Israeli
Sacred space
Zionism
Israel
Form Electronic book
Author Ben-Ari, Eyal, 1953-
Bilu, Yoram
LC no. 96015390
ISBN 0585092850
9780585092850
9780791432174
0791432173
9780791432181
0791432181
0791496260
9780791496268