A Place in History is a cultural study of Tel Aviv, Israel's population center, established in 1909. It describes how a largely European Jewish immigrant society attempted to forge a home in the Mediterranean, and explores the role of memory and diaspora in the creation of a new national culture. Each chapter is devoted to a particular place in the city that has been central to its history, and includes literary, artistic, journalistic, and photographic material relating to that site.
This is the first book-length study of Tel Aviv in English. It will appeal to readers...
A Place in History is a cultural study of Tel Aviv, Israel's population center, established in 1909. It describes how a largely European Jew...
A Place in History is a cultural study of Tel Aviv, Israel's population center, established in 1909. It describes how a largely European Jewish immigrant society attempted to forge a home in the Mediterranean, and explores the role of memory and diaspora in the creation of a new national culture. Each chapter is devoted to a particular place in the city that has been central to its history, and includes literary, artistic, journalistic, and photographic material relating to that site.
This is the first book-length study of Tel Aviv in English. It will appeal to readers...
A Place in History is a cultural study of Tel Aviv, Israel's population center, established in 1909. It describes how a largely European Jew...
Scholars in the humanities have become increasingly interested in questions of how space is produced and perceived--and they have found that this consideration of human geography greatly enriches our understanding of cultural history. This "spatial turn" equally has the potential to revolutionize Jewish Studies, complicating familiar notions of Jews as "people of the Book," displaced persons with only a common religious tradition and history to unite them.
Space and Place in Jewish Studies embraces these exciting critical developments by investigating what "space" has meant...
Scholars in the humanities have become increasingly interested in questions of how space is produced and perceived--and they have found that this c...
Scholars in the humanities have become increasingly interested in questions of how space is produced and perceived and they have found that this consideration of human geography greatly enriches our understanding of cultural history. This spatial turn equally has the potential to revolutionize Jewish Studies, complicating familiar notions of Jews as people of the Book, displaced persons with only a common religious tradition and history to unite them.
"Space and Place in Jewish Studies "embraces these exciting critical developments by investigating what space has meant within Jewish...
Scholars in the humanities have become increasingly interested in questions of how space is produced and perceived and they have found that this co...
