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
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mehrbändiges Werk:
Heritage, culture and identity
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ISBN: 0754671186 ; 9780754671183
  • 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