earlier, in 1925, Halbwachs had published his book The Social Framework of Memory . This book, argues the historian Vincent Lemire, made Halbwachs the “first scholar to have attempted a sociological approach to memory processes” (ibid.). In Jerusalem
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In Israel Studies Review
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- 01 Mar 2020
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Guiding Settler Jerusalem
Voice and the Transpositions of History in Religious Zionist Pilgrimage
Alejandro I. Paz
This article examines how Elad, a religious Zionist settler group, attempts to reanimate biblical tales by transposing biblical text as part of tours for Jewish visitors to the City of David archaeological site in East Jerusalem. Since the early 1990s, Elad has created controversy by settling in the Palestinian neighborhood of Silwan, provoking criticism from Israeli archaeologists and peace activists. In an effort to avoid 'politics' during tours, the group emphasizes a now globalized historicist reading of the Bible, an interpretation popularized by archaeology over the last century and a half. The article considers how transposition from this historicist reading into the here and now is a rhetorical device used to create a biblical realism that does not yet exist in the contested landscape. However, rather than producing an erasure of the Palestinian presence, and in contradiction to the professed desire to refrain from politics, I show that the very communicative situation and multiple framings for producing this biblical realism inevitably remind visitors of the contemporary context.
In Religion and Society
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- 01 Sep 2014
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- Research Article
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- 128–142 (15 total)
Curating Conflict
Four Exhibitions on Jerusalem
Sa'ed Atshan and Katharina Galor
“The heritage of Jerusalem is indivisible, and each of its communities has a right to the explicit recognition of their history and relationship with the city. To deny, conceal or erase any of the Jewish, Christian, or Muslim traditions
In Conflict and Society
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- 01 Jun 2020
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Intimidation, reassurance, and invisibility
Israeli security agents in the Old City of Jerusalem
Erella Grassiani and Lior Volinz
The Old city of Jerusalem is a place of extremes, where tourists and pilgrims come to see the sights and pray, but where violence is often just around the corner. As part of East Jerusalem, the square kilometer called the Old City is
Christian Pilgrimage Groups in Jerusalem
Framing the Experience Through Linear Meta-Narrative
Vida Bajc
Christian pilgrims come to the Holy Land to visit specific physical places that give their faith a tangible form. On organized tours, pilgrimage is structured through an itinerary which consists of a series of encounters, purposefully shaped to bring to life the story of Jesus. These encounters involve performative practices of tour-group leaders at specific symbolic sites with particular narratives. The biblical reality is invoked through a process of meta-framing which allows for a cognitive shift from the mundane walking from site to site into a biblical reality. Meta-framing interlaces the Christian religious memory, performed by the spiritual leader, with the Israeli historical memory, performed by the Israeli tour guide, into a single, linear meta-narrative.
The Return to the Monument
The Looming Absence of the Temple
Hava Schwartz
Figure 2 Golden Menorah constructed by the Temple Institute, the Jewish Quarter, Jerusalem Photographs © Hava Schwartz The images of the Temple and the menorah are deeply embedded in Jewish art. The facade of the Temple and the shape of the menorah
In Israel Studies Review
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- 01 Jun 2017
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- 48–66 (19 total)
Identity, Ethnicity, and Nationalism
The Rabban Yochanan Ben-Zakai Synagogue and the Sephardi Community of Jerusalem, 1900–1948
Reuven Gafni
On an early Thursday afternoon in July 1904, several hundred people—men, women, and even young children—crowded into the relatively small prayer hall in the Rabban Yochanan Ben-Zakai synagogue in Jerusalem. The event was the eulogy of Binyamin Ze
In Israel Studies Review
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- 01 Dec 2022
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- 134–157 (24 total)
The Temple Mount/al-Aqsa in Zionist and Palestinian National Consciousness
A Comparative View
Hillel Cohen
for holiness, and this has been an important influence on both national societies and the relations between them. Regarding the connection between Palestinian nationalism and Jerusalem, I argue—following Rashid Khalidi (1997) and Haim Gerber (2008
In Israel Studies Review
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- 01 Jun 2017
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Klara Butting
pilgrim's path of righteousness and of peace begins with this opening question, a text-space opens up, in which I gain images of peace and in which steps are taken along the path of peace. Arrival and Crisis in Jerusalem After recognising that ‘I
In European Judaism
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- 01 Sep 2021
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- Research Article
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- 104–112 (9 total)
Gil Nativ
The three weeks known as Bein HaMeitzarim, twenty-one days between 17th of Tamuz and 9th of Av, are marked by abstaining from wedding ceremonies, dance-music, and for the more observant: no eating of meat or drinking wine, except on Shabbat. We read in Mishna, Ta'anit 4.6: 'Five things befell our ancestors on the 17th of Tamuz, and five on the 9th of Av'. The two lists of five things are somewhat symmetric: the first event in each list connects these two dates with mishaps during the first years of wandering in the Sinai desert, following the Exodus. The second and third items in each of these two lists connect the two dates with commemorating the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem. Which of the two Temples: the first or the second? As for Tish'ah beAv this mishnah is clear: 'The Temple was destroyed the first time and the second time on this date', i.e. both Temples were destroyed on the same date in different centuries. There is a contradiction between the two Biblical reports, in Jeremiah 52:12 and in II Kings 25:8, concerning the First Temple.
In European Judaism
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- 01 Mar 2005
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- 126–132 (6 total)