Eyal Ben-Ari is Associate Professor and Yoram Bilu is Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Ben-Ari has also written Changing Japanese Suburbia: A Study of Two Present-Day Localities; Organization and Culture in Japanese Children: An Interpretive Study; and Body Projects in Japanese Childcare: Culture, Organization and Emotions in a Preschool. Bilu is the author of Without Bounds: The Life and Death of Rabbi Ya'acov Wazana.
Introduction
Eyal Ben-Ari and Yoram Bilu
1 To Morocco and Back: Tourism and Pilgrimage among Moroccan-Born Israelis
André Levy
2 Gravesites and Memorials of Libyan Jews: Alternative Versions of the Sacralization of Space in Judaism
Harvey E. Goldberg
3 Saints' Sanctuaries in Israeli Development Towns: On a Mechanism of Urban Transformation
Eyal Ben-Ari and Yoram Bilu
4 The Presence of Absence: The Memorialism of National Death in Israel
Don Handelman and Lea Shamgar-Handelman
5 Tiyul (Hike) as an Act of Consecration of Space
Orit Ben-David
6 Remaking Place: Cultural Production in Israeli Pioneer Settlement Museums
Tamar Katriel
7 In and Out of Territory
Dan Rabinowitz
8 The Double Site of Israel
Zali Gurevitch
9 A Response from New York: Return of the Repressed?
Jonathan Boyarin
Epilogue (Three Years Later)
Yoram Bilu and Eyal Ben-Ari
Contributors
Index