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Jewish Women: Between Conformity and Agency examines the concepts
of gender and sexuality through the primary lens of visual and
material culture from antiquity through to the present day. The
backbone of this transhistorical and transcontextual study is the
question of Jewish women’s agency in four different geographical,
chronological, and methodological contexts, beginning with
women’s dress codes in Roman-Byzantine Syro-Palestine, continuing
with rituals of purity in medieval Ashkenaz, worship in papal
Avignon and the Comtat Venaissin, and ending with marriage and
divorce in Israeli film. Each of these explorations is interested
in creating a dialogue between the patriarchal legacy of the
traditional texts and the chronologically corresponding visual and
material culture. The author challenges traditional approaches to
the study of Jewish culture by employing tools from art history,
archaeology, and film and media studies. It is argued that, in each
of these different contexts, there is ample evidence that
women—despite persistent overall structural discrimination—have
found ways to challenge male constructs of gender norms.
Ultimately, these examples from past and present times highlight
women’s eminence in shaping Jewish history and culture. Bringing
a new interdisciplinary lens to the study of the history of gender
and sexuality, the book will be of interest to students and
researchers of Jewish history and culture, art history,
archaeology, and film studies.
Berlin is home to Europe's largest Palestinian diaspora community
and one of the world's largest Israeli diaspora communities.
Germany's guilt about the Nazi Holocaust has led to a public
disavowal of anti-Semitism and strong support for the Israeli
state. Meanwhile, Palestinians in Berlin report experiencing
increasing levels of racism and Islamophobia. In The Moral Triangle
Sa'ed Atshan and Katharina Galor draw on ethnographic fieldwork and
interviews with Israelis, Palestinians, and Germans in Berlin to
explore these asymmetric relationships in the context of official
German policies, public discourse, and the private sphere. They
show how these relationships stem from narratives surrounding moral
responsibility, the Holocaust, the Israel/Palestine conflict, and
Germany's recent welcoming of Middle Eastern refugees. They also
point to spaces for activism and solidarity among Germans,
Israelis, and Palestinians in Berlin that can help foster
restorative justice and account for multiple forms of trauma.
Highlighting their interlocutors' experiences, memories, and hopes,
Atshan and Galor demonstrate the myriad ways in which migration,
trauma, and contemporary state politics are inextricably linked.
Berlin is home to Europe's largest Palestinian diaspora community
and one of the world's largest Israeli diaspora communities.
Germany's guilt about the Nazi Holocaust has led to a public
disavowal of anti-Semitism and strong support for the Israeli
state. Meanwhile, Palestinians in Berlin report experiencing
increasing levels of racism and Islamophobia. In The Moral Triangle
Sa'ed Atshan and Katharina Galor draw on ethnographic fieldwork and
interviews with Israelis, Palestinians, and Germans in Berlin to
explore these asymmetric relationships in the context of official
German policies, public discourse, and the private sphere. They
show how these relationships stem from narratives surrounding moral
responsibility, the Holocaust, the Israel/Palestine conflict, and
Germany's recent welcoming of Middle Eastern refugees. They also
point to spaces for activism and solidarity among Germans,
Israelis, and Palestinians in Berlin that can help foster
restorative justice and account for multiple forms of trauma.
Highlighting their interlocutors' experiences, memories, and hopes,
Atshan and Galor demonstrate the myriad ways in which migration,
trauma, and contemporary state politics are inextricably linked.
Reel Gender is a groundbreaking collection that addresses the
collective realities and the filmic representations of Palestinian
and Israeli societies. The eight essays, by leading scholars,
demonstrate how Palestinian and Israeli film production-despite
obvious overlaps and similarities and while keeping in mind the
inherent asymmetry of power dynamics-are at the forefront of
engaging gender and sexuality. The scholars of this volume
construct and deconstruct still and moving images, characters, and
stories that create an entanglement of Palestinian and Israeli
cinema. Together they portray the region's diverse but unexpectedly
intermingled ethnic, religious, and national communities, framed or
countered by various societal norms, laws, and expectations, while
also defined by colonial realities. The essays draw
methodologically from the fields of media and cultural studies,
critical and postcolonial theory, feminism, post-feminism, and
queer theory.
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos,
University of California Press's open access publishing program.
Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Archaeological discoveries
in Jerusalem capture worldwide attention in various media outlets.
The continuing quest to discover the city's physical remains is not
simply an attempt to define Israel's past or determine its
historical legacy. In the context of the ongoing
Israeli-Palestinian conflict, it is also an attempt to
legitimate-or undercut-national claims to sovereignty. Bridging the
ever-widening gap between popular coverage and specialized
literature, Finding Jerusalem provides a comprehensive tour of the
politics of archaeology in the city. Through a wide-ranging
discussion of the material evidence, Katharina Galor illuminates
the complex legal contexts and ethical precepts that underlie
archaeological activity and the discourse of "cultural heritage" in
Jerusalem. This book addresses the pressing need to disentangle
historical documentation from the religious aspirations, social
ambitions, and political commitments that shape its interpretation.
The aim of the present conference volume is to study the
interrelationship of literary and material approaches to historical
investigation of gender. Paradigmatically the significance and
meaning of gender and sexuality is explored in the context of
private and public, religious and secular spaces. Historical,
cultural, and social norms (and deviations) of daily life are
examined through the lens of textual, archaeological, and art
historical investigations to interpret relics of ancient Israelite,
Jewish, and Christian communities from the Iron Age through Late
Antiquity. Scholars from varied disciplines such as biblical and
classical archaeology, epigraphy, Old and New Testament exegesis
and religious studies assembled to engage in a dialogue involving
both texts and material culture.
A sweeping and lavishly illustrated survey of nearly four thousand
years of human settlement and building activity in Jerusalem, from
prehistoric times through the Ottoman period In this sweeping and
lavishly illustrated history, Katharina Galor and Hanswulf
Bloedhorn survey nearly four thousand years of human life and
material culture in Jerusalem. They have organized their book
chronologically, exploring fortifications and water systems as well
as key sacred, civic, and domestic architecture. Distinctive finds
such as paintings, mosaics, pottery, and coins highlight each
period. They provide a unique perspective on the emergence and
development of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and the
relationship among the three religions and their cultures into the
modern period.
On a cold winter morning in January of 1851, a small group of
people approached the monumental façade of an ancient rock-cut
burial cave located north of the Old City of Jerusalem. The team,
consisting of two Europeans and a number of local workers, was led
by Louis-Félicien Caignart de Saulcy—descendant of a noble
Flemish family who later was to become a distinguished member of
the French parliament. As an amateur archaeologist and a devout
Catholic, de Saulcy was attracted to the Holy Land and Jerusalem in
particular and was obsessed by his desire to uncover some tangible
evidence for the city’s glorious past. However, unlike numerous
other European pilgrims, researchers and adventurers before him, de
Saulcy was determined to expose the evidence by physically
excavating ancient sites. His first object of investigation
constitutes one of the most attractive and mysterious monumental
burial caves within the vicinity of the Old City, from then onward
to be referred to as the “Tomb of the Kings” (Kubur al-Muluk).
By conducting an archaeological investigation, de Saulcy tried to
prove that this complex represented no less than the monumental
sepulcher of the biblical Davidic Dynasty. His brief exploration of
the burial complex in 1851 led to the discovery of several ancient
artifacts, including sizeable marble fragments of one or several
sarcophagi. It would take him another 13 years to raise the funds
for a more comprehensive investigation of the site. On November 17,
1863, de Saulcy returned to Jerusalem with a larger team to
initiate what would later be referred to as the first
archaeological excavation to be conducted in the city.—(from the
“Preface”) In 2006, some two dozen contemporary archaeologists
and historians met at Brown University, in Providence RI, to
present papers and illustrations marking the 150th anniversary of
modern archaeological exploration of the Holy City. The papers from
that conference are published here, presented in 5 major sections:
(1) The History of Research, (2) From Early Humans to the Iron Age,
(3) The Roman Period, (4) The Byzantine Period, and (5) The Early
Islamic and Medieval Periods. The volume is heavily illustrated
with materials from historical archives as well as from
contemporary excavations. It provides a helpful and informative
introduction to the history of the various national and religious
organizations that have sponsored excavations in the Holy Land and
Jerusalem in particular, as well as a summary of the current status
of excavations in Jerusalem.
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