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Item Number: 110195
Title: Symbolic Houses in Judaism : How Objects and Metaphors Construct Hybrid Places of Belonging
Author: Lipis, Mimi Levy
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9781409421047
Description: Aldershot: Ashgate, 2011. 25cm., hardcover, 246pp. illus. Summary: Investigating Jewish spatial practices by exploring the symbol of the house in Judaism, this book examines two groups of houses: ritual objects based on the iconology of the house (ritual houses) and house metaphors (the text, community and the covenant with god as house). This unique pairing is explored as place-making tools which exist in a constant state of tension between diaspora and belonging. Containing many photographs of historical and contemporary artefacts from Europe, Israel and the United States, this book maps out the intersection of architecture, Jewish studies, cultural and gender studies and opens up the discussion of distinctly Jewish objects and metaphors to discourses taking place outside explicitly Jewish contexts. Contents: Preface; Introduction; Situating the house; The ritual houses; The house as a metaphor; Spaces and places in the sukkah; Glossary; Internet-based references; Bibliography; Index. (Ashgate Studies in Architecture)
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