Desert in the Promised Land by Yael Zerubavel

368 pages paperback 2018

3 editions

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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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 p...

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