Spiritual Homelands: The Cultural Experience of Exile, Place and Displacement among Jews and Others

by Asher D. Biemann (Editor), Richard I. Cohen (Editor), Sarah E. Wobick-Segev (Editor)

Overview

Homeland, Exile, Imagined Homelands are features of the modern experience and relate to the cultural and historical dilemmas of loss, nostalgia, utopia, travel, longing, and are central for Jews and others. This book is an exploration into a world of boundary crossings and of desired places and alternate identities, into a world of adopted kin and invented allegiances.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783110637366
Publisher:	De Gruyter
Publication date:	12/02/2019
Series:	Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts , #12
Pages:	316
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.06(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Asher D. Biemann, University of Virginia, USA; Richard I. Cohen and Sarah E. Wobick-Segev, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.