Desert in the Promised Land - Yael Zerubavel

At once an ecological phenomenon and a cultural construction, the desert has varied associations within Zionist and Israeli culture. In the Judaic textual tradition, it evokes exile and punishment, yet is also a site for origin myths, the divine presence, and sanctity. Secular Zionism developed its own spin on the duality of the desert as the romantic site of Jews

Desert in the Promised Land - Yael Zerubavel

the-desert-the-island-and-the-semiotics-of-space-in-israeli-culture, The Parkes Institute

The IHGMS hosts panel to discuss new book on the desert in Israel – Massachusetts Daily Collegian

Jacqueline Kahanoff

Desert in the Promised Land book by Yael Zerubavel

Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series Trinity Term 2019

Desert in the Promised Land: Nature, Settlement, and the Politics of Space

PDF) Tourism development and the empowerment of local communities: The case of Mitzpe Ramon, a peripheral town in the Israeli Negev Desert

A Situation: A Tree in Palestine

AJS Perspectives: The Magazine of the Association for Jewish Studies