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X-WR-CALNAME:Jewish Studies Heritage Fund Annual Author Talk - Sidra Ezrahi
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SUMMARY:Jewish Studies Heritage Fund Annual Author Talk - Sidra Ezrahi
CONTACT:Diana Wilder\, 5029191965\, email:dmwild02@louisville.edu
DESCRIPTION:Figuring Jerusalem explores how Hebrew writers have imagined J
 erusalem, both from the distance of exile and from within its sacred walls
 . For two thousand years, Hebrew writers used their exile from the Holy La
 nd as a license for invention. The question at the heart of Figuring Jeru
 salem is this: how did such writers bring their imagination “home” in
  the 20th century? Ezrahi finds that the same diasporic conventions that H
 ebrew writers practiced in exile were maintained in the first half of the 
 twentieth century. Even after 1948, when the state of Israel was founded b
 ut East Jerusalem and its holy sites remained under Arab control, Jerusale
 m continued to figure in the Hebrew imagination as mediated space. Only in
  the aftermath of the 1967 War did the temptations and dilemmas of proximi
 ty to the sacred become acute in every area of Hebrew politics and culture
 . Ultimately, DeKoven Ezrahi shows that the wisdom Jews acquired through t
 wo thousand years of exile, as expressed in their literary imagination, mu
 st be rediscovered if the diverse inhabitants of Jerusalem are to coexist.
GEO:38.2169;-85.7605
LOCATION:Ekstrom Library
URL:https://events.louisville.edu/events/jewish-studies-heritage-fund-annua
 l-author-talk-sidra-ezrahi/2026-10-18
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