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Time and place play the central role in our understanding of Jewish civilisation, while place and space seem to be secondary categories at best. Jewish places are most commonly perceived to be either religious sites or sites of remebrance: extinguished places whose reality is preserved in the imaginations of the survivors or places where people reflect on murder and destruction. However, Jewish places have been and still are not limited to 'lieux de memoire' but also include 'lieux d'espoire' and lived spaces.This interdisciplinary anthology focuses on the manifold approaches to the perception and experience of Jewish places and hence sheds new light on the diverse processes of Jewish place-making. Grounding a range of global case studies from past and present within a theoretical framework of the 'spatial turn', it explores innovative metholodological approaches that help to map Jewish topographies, thereby offering a fascinating new perspective on Jewish places in their diversity and multi-dimensionality.
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JEWISH TOPOGRAPHIES
Heritage, Culture and Identity
Series Editor: Brian Graham, School of Environmental Sciences, University of Ulster, UK
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Jewish Topographies Visions of Space, Traditions of Place
Edited by JULIA BRAUCH, ANNA LIPPHARDT ALEXANDRA NOCKE
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www.ashgate.com British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Jewish topographies : visions of space, traditions of place. - (Heritage, culture and identity) 1. Jews - Social conditions 2. Jews - Identity 3. Jews Civilization 4. Jews - Cross-cultural studies 5. Space and time - Religious aspects - Judaism 6. Sociology, Urba 7. Jewish diaspora I. Brauch, Julia II. Lipphardt, Anne III. Nocke, Alexandra 305.8’924 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Jewish topographies : visions of space, traditions of place/[edited] by Julia Brauch, Anna Lipphardt and Alexandra Nocke. p. cm. -- (Heritage, culture and identity) Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 978-0-7546-7118-3 1. Jews--Social conditions. 2. Jews--Identity. 3. Jews--Civilization. 4. Jews--Crosscultural studies. 5. Space and time--Religious aspects--Judaism. 6. Sociology, Urban. 7. Jewish diaspora. I. Brauch, Julia. II. Lipphardt, An