Jewish topographies
Titel: | Jewish topographies : visions of space, traditions of place / ed. by Julia Brauch ... |
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Veröffentlicht: | Aldershot : Ashgate, 2008 |
Umfang: | XII, 375 Seiten : Illustrationen |
Format: | Buch |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Schriftenreihe/ mehrbändiges Werk: |
Heritage, culture and identity |
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ISBN: | 0754671186 ; 9780754671183 |
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Inhaltsverzeichnis
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- Foreword
- Introduction
- Exploring Jewish space: an approach
- Part I
- Construction Sites
- A hybrid place of belonging: constructing and siting the Sukkah
- 'Eruv' urbanism: towards an alternative 'Jewish architecture' in Germany
- From state-imposed urban planning to Israeli diasporic place: the case of Netivot and the grave of Baba Sali
- Part II
- Jewish Quarters
- Ghetto gardens: life in the midst of death
- The Mellah of Fez: reflections on the spatial turn in Moroccan Jewish history
- Religious microspaces in a suburban environment: the orthodox Jews of Thornhill, Ontario
- Altering alternatives: mapping Jewish subcultures in Budapest
- Part III
- Cityscapes and Landscapes: Poland
- A materialized settlement and a metaphysical landscape in legends of origin of Polish Jews
- A view of the sea: Jews and the maritime tradition
- Desert and settlement: space metaphors and symbolic landscapes in the Yishuv and early Israeli culture
- Jews and the big city: explorations of an urban state of mind
- Part IV
- Exploring and Mapping Jewish Space: Travel and local history as a national mission
- Polish Jews and the Landkentenish movement of the 1920s and 1930s
- Taking distance: Israeli backpackers and their society
- Tales of diaspora in the new fluid atlas of virtual place: the internet project 'The man who swam into history'
- Part V
- Enacted Spaces
- Foodscapes: the culinary landscapes of Russian-Jewish New York
- The Buena Vista Baghdad Club: negotiating local, national, and global representations of Jewish Iraqi musicians in Israel
- Mini Israel: the Israeli place between the global and the miniature
- Epilogue: Virtual Jewish Topography: the genesis of Jewish (second) life
- Index