Space and Place in Jewish Studies

Index

Index 183 1948 war: and Amichai, 160n5; in Facing the Forest (Yehoshua), 72; in Homesick (Arba’a batim ve-gagua) (Nevo), 73; and Jerusalem, 55; in Khirbet Khizeh (Yizhar), 70–71; and the Land, 68–70, 72–73, 167n54; and New Historians, 22 1967 war: and Jerusalem, 39–40; in “Jerusalem 1967” (Amichai), 39–40, 160n5; in Yasmin (Amir), 39 1982 war in Lebanon, 110 Abraham, 11–12, 16, 58, 60, 98 Abramovitch, S. Y., 102, 126 acacia trees, 63–64 acculturation, 61, 103, 118, 123, 128–129, 139 Adam, 27–28, 30 Agnon, S. Y., 15–16, 51–53, 172n18 agriculture, 29, 59, 76, 88, 118, 153 Ahavat Tsion (Mapu), 65 Aksenfeld, I., 125–126 Al-Aksa Mosque, 44 Alcalay, Ammiel, 62–63 Aleichem, Sholem, 102–103 alleyways, 70, 90–91, 140 Almog, Oz, 68 Altneuland (Herzl), 51 America. See United States Amery, Jean, 95 Amichai, Yehuda, 4–5, 39–41, 148, 151, 160n5 Amir, Eli, 38–40 al-Andalus, 26, 31–37, 47, 107–108 Angels in America (Kushner), 111–112 Anidjar, Gil, 31 Annales school, 21–22 anthropology, 5, 16, 21, 73, 149 antisemitism, 61, 100 Aphrodite, 92–94 Apollo, 60 Appadurai, Arjun, 21, 108, 147 Arabesques (Shammas), 166–167n51 Arabic language/literature: Arabic poetry, 31–35; and the City, 116–117; and Jerusalem, 39, 49; and the Land, 71, 73–74; in The One Facing Us (Matalon), 115; place names, 71; in Yasmin (Amir), 39 Arabs: Arab-Jewish riots (1929), 66; in Facing the Forest (Yehoshua), 72; in “Facing the Wilderness” (Shlonsky), 66–68, 73; in The Hill of Evil Counsel (Oz), 53; in Homesick (Arba’a batim ve-gagua) (Nevo), 73; and Intifada, 110; Israeli Arab population, 152; and Jerusalem, 38–39, 47–48, 53; Jewish-Arab conflict, 152; and the Land, 61, 66, 71–75, 166–167n51, 168n67; in “My Heart Is in the East” (Halevi), 47–48; in Yasmin (Amir), 38–39. See also Moslems/Muslims; Palestinians Aran, Gideon, 16 archaeology, 17, 23, 74; and rabbinic culture, 88–90, 92–94 The Archaeology of Knowledge (Foucault), 23 architecture: and bayit, 81–82, 84–87, 90, 94; “celebrity architects,” 55–56; and the City, 117, 122–123, 125–126, 130–133, 132fig.; deconstructivist school of, 131; and eruv, 146–147; and the Garden, 28; global, 7, 56, 56fig., 117, 130–133, 132fig.; in “The Headband” (Aksenfeld), 125–126; and Jerusalem, 7, 37, 43–44, 55–57, 56fig.; and the Land, 69, 74–75, 167n60; Lefebvre’s views on, 18; and makom, 17–18; of Palestinian villages, 74–75; postwar, 131–133, 132fig.; and rabbinic culture, 86–87, 90, 94; Tigerman’s views on, 37; Tuan’s views on, 17; of Yad Vashem, 69 Ark of the Covenant, 12, 41 art/artists: art as performance, 145, 145fig.; and bayit, 94–96; conceptual artists, 138–139, 142–144, 178n2; Dura Europos synagogue frescos, 94–95; and Ein Houd/Ein Hod, 73; and eruv, 138–139, 142–147, 178n2, 179nn22,25; and the Land, 61–62, 62fig., 73; minimalism/ postminimalism, 145; and rituals, 143–145, 145fig.; sculptures/statues, 60–61, 92–93, 95–96, 105, 123; string-eruv art, 144. See also architecture artifact, 5, 26, 112, 151, 155n1; in rabbinic culture, 14, 88–90, 92–93 Ashkenazic communities, 107, 121 Bachelard, Gaston, 18 Baghdad, 50, 88, 116–117 Bahloul, Joelle, 168n1 Baker, Cynthia, 89–91, 169n22 Balfour Declaration, 41 Ballas, Shimon, 116 Bar Kokhba, 68; Bar Kokhba rebellion, 59 Baron, Devora, 172n18 Barthes, Roland, 114, 174n54 Bashara, Azmi, 74 bathhouses, 74, 86, 88, 92–94 Baudelaire, Charles, 19, 40 bayit, 79, 81–97; in “The Dead of the Desert” (Bialik), 85; and eruv, 81, 87, 90–93, 169n28; and gender, 86–87, 90; and idolatry, 92–93, 95; mishkan as, 81–84, 168n8; and nationhood, 81–82, 85–86; and performative space, 93–95; and rabbinic culture, 81, 84, 86–93, 169nn13,22; and sculptures/statues, 92–93, 95; sukkah as, 81, 84; Tuan’s views on, 82. See also home/homeland; houses Belasco, Daniel, 179n22 Ben-Gurion, David, 71 Benjamin of Tudela, 50 Benvenisti, Meron, 71–72, 74, 76 Berdichevski, Micah Joseph, 150 Berlin, 15, 61, 103, 117, 131, 133, 139, 144 “Berlin’s Eruv” (Escobar video project), 144 “Between Memory and History: Les Lieux de Memoire” (Nora), 22–24 Bezalel Academy, 61–62 Bhabha, Homi, 20 Bialik, Chaim Nachman, 85 Bialystokers, 108 biblical texts: and bayit, 82–85, 94, 96; and the City, 118; and...