On the Place: Israeli Anthropology

Gideon Aran

Zali Gurevitch

1991

The Israeli existence is new and experimental. Israelism comes from Zionism, based on the idea of the Jewish people’s return to its place. Israel is a Jewish place. Use of the term Jewish in characterizing the place arouses dissatisfaction and startles from its lair the Israelism that should already have taken the place of the Judaism whence sprang…

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Gideon Aran

1946

Gideon Aran is an Israeli sociologist. His studies concern questions of space, Israeli memory, politics, extremism, and fundamentalism. Aran is a Scholion Scholar at the Hebrew University’s Interdisciplinary Research Center in Jewish Studies. 

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Zali Gurevitch

b. 1949

A poet, anthropologist, and translator, Zali Gurevitch was born in California. He teaches at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. In addition to having published volumes of poetry, Gurevitch has written about questions concerning Israeli senses of space.

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