Desert in the Promised Land - Yael Zerubavel

At once an ecological phenomenon and a cultural construction, the desert has varied associations within Zionist and Israeli culture. In the Judaic textual tradition, it evokes exile and punishment, yet is also a site for origin myths, the divine presence, and sanctity. Secular Zionism developed its own spin on the duality of the desert as the romantic site of Jews

Introducing the 2016-17 Frankel Institute Fellows

PDF) Of Trees and People: The Changing Entanglement in the Israeli Desert

Bancroft Hotel – J.

What Would Theodor Herzl Say About Israel Today?

PDF) The Reinvention of the Promised Land. Utopian Space and Time in the Soviet Jewish Exodus Literature. In: East European Jewish Affairs, Volume 45, Issue 1 (2015), p. 79-108.

Tel Hai, 1920-2020: A new look at overlooked perspectives: Journal of Israeli History: Vol 39, No 1

Access Denied: Temporal Mobility Regimes in Hebron

View of Ephemera of a Promised Land: Two Travel Guides in a Reconstituted Jerusalemite Family Archive

Desert in the Promised Land: Nature, Settlement, and the Politics of Space

Full article: The politics of arrival: Israeli borderscapes and the boundaries of artistic space in Emi Sfard's Invasive Species

Past MESP Events – Middle East Studies Program – UW–Madison

Ranen Omer-Sherman University of Louisville - Academia.edu