Space And Place In Jewish Studies - Barbara E. Mann

Scholars In The Humanities Have Become Increasingly Interested In Questions Of How Space Is Produced And Perceived-and They Have Found That This Consideration Of Human Geography Greatly Enriches Our Understanding Of Cultural History. This Spatial Turn Equally Has The Potential To Revolutionize Jewish Studies, Complicating Familiar Notions Of Jews As People Of The Book, Displaced Persons With Only A Common Religious Tradition And History To Unite Them. Space And Place In Jewish Studies Embraces These Exciting Critical Developments By Investigating What Space Has Meant Within Jewish Culture And Tradition-and How Notions Of Jewish Space, Diaspora, And Home Continue To Resonate Within Contemporary Discourse, Bringing Space To The Foreground As A Practical And Analytical Category.