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Israel, the impossible land / Jean-Christophe Attias and Esther Benbassa ; translated by Susan Emanuel.
LIBRA BM729.P3 A8813 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Attias, Jean-Christophe.
- Series:
- Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
- Standardized Title:
- Israël imaginaire. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Palestine--In Judaism.
- Palestine.
- Zionism and Judaism.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 294 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2003.
- Summary:
- " Jean-Christophe Attias and Esther Benbassa have written an elegant and erudite book demonstrating the complex relationship to the land of Israel throughout Jewish history." - American Historical Review
- Contents:
- Part 1 Genealogies
- 1. The Promised Land 7
- "In the Beginning," Ambiguity 9
- A Heritage Deferred 12
- Exile and the Desert 16
- The Memory of an Initial Expropriation 20
- A Dismembered Land 24
- Sedentary People, Nomadic God 27
- If I Forget Thee, O Jerusalem ... 30
- 2. The Holy Land 34
- New Horizons 34
- A Partial Reappropriation 37
- The Center and the Periphery 41
- Living Without the Temple 46
- A "Deterritorialized" Judaism? 50
- The Legal Land 52
- Holy Land, Holy People 56
- 3. The Land of Dreams 60
- Other Times: The Land's Middle Ages? 60
- Stars and Climates 65
- The Heart of the World 69
- Divine Land 71
- The Land as Metaphor 75
- A Taste of Paradise 79
- Nearby Lands, Distant Lands 82
- 4. The Exiled Land 87
- Land and Liturgy 88
- The Land and the Law: Rabbinic Hermeneutical Exercises 94
- The Duty of Aliyah or the Duty of Exile? 98
- The Forbidden Land 102
- Encounters with Palestine 107
- Voyagers and "Geographers" 110
- Nostalgia 116
- Part 2 Metamorphoses
- 5. The Rediscovered Land 121
- "Here" and "There" 121
- The Christian Rediscovery of Palestine 131
- Palestine Revisited by the Jews 137
- Ancient Land, New Land(s) 142
- 6. The Recreated Land 152
- To Whom Does the Land Belong? 152
- The Cult of the Land 157
- The Symbolism of Pioneering 160
- The Myths to the Rescue of the Land 168
- The Land of Historians 179
- Negation of Exile, Negation of Self 187
- 7. The Impossible Land 195
- A Culture of Rootedness 195
- Interminable Exile 199
- The Return of the Promised Land 208
- The Coming of Post-Zionism 212
- The Wandering Israeli 224.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 270-286) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0804741123
- 0804741662
- OCLC:
- 50479208
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