Grasping Land

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 Bilu1 To Morocco and Back: Tourism and Pilgrimage among Moroccan-Born Israelis André Levy2 Gravesites and Memorials of Libyan Jews: Alternative Versions of the Sacralization of Space in Judaism Harvey E. Goldberg3 Saints' Sanctuaries in Israeli Development Towns: On a Mechanism of Urban Transformation Eyal Ben-Ari and Yoram Bilu4 The Presence of Absence: The Memorialism of National Death in Israel Don Handelman and Lea Shamgar-Handelman5 Tiyul (Hike) as an Act of Consecration of Space Orit Ben-David6 Remaking Place: Cultural Production in Israeli Pioneer Settlement Museums Tamar Katriel7 In and Out of Territory Dan Rabinowitz8 The Double Site of Israel Zali Gurevitch9 A Response from New York: Return of the Repressed? Jonathan BoyarinEpilogue (Three Years Later) Yoram Bilu and Eyal Ben-AriContributors Index

"Grasping Land is an outstanding effort for which the editors are to be commended. Not only are the articles clearly written, absorbing, original and unusual with respect to the anthropological literature of the Middle East generally and Israel in particular, but they open up new vistas in thinking about nationalism, political systems and the ethnography of complex society. What truly sets this volume apart from many other collections, is the brilliant explanatory essay by the editors." — Laurence D. Loeb, University of Utah"I am particularly impressed with the richness of the case material and the sophisticated manner in which it is utilized to explicate the common themes. The topic is of great intrinsic significance for anyone interested in contemporary Israel. The book is highly original and important." — Leonard Kasdan, Dalhousie University