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Issue06 / December 2013

Focus

Travels to the “Holy Land”: Perceptions, Representations and Narratives

edited by Serena Di Nepi and Arturo Marzano

Timothy Gabashvili, View of Jerusalem, in “Pilgrimage to Mount Athos, Constantinople and Jerusalem” (1755-1759)

  • Introduction by Serena Di Nepi and Arturo Marzano                                        
  • “Thousands great saints”: Evliya Çelebi in Ottoman Palestine by Yaron Ben-Naeh                                        
  • Images, Views and Landscapes of the Holy Land. Catholic and Protestant Travels to Ottoman Palestine during the 19th Century by Paolo Maggiolini                                        
  • Travels of Russians to the Holy Land in the 19th Century by Simona Merlo                                        
  • An Unusual Traveler: Ida Pfeiffer’s Visit to the Holy Land in 1842 by Jennifer Michaels                                        
  • Stillness and Motion: Depicting the Urban Landscape of Palestine in the 19th Century by Guy Galazka                                        
  • Encounters of a Third Kind: Mark Twain, William C. Prime and Protestant American Holy Land Narratives by Milette Shamir                                        
  • "With Eyes towards Zion": Visions of the Holy Land in Romanian Synagogues by Ilia Rodov                                        
  • Visiting British Palestine: Zionist travelers to Eretz Israel by Arturo Marzano                                        
  • Graphic Novels Explore an (Un-)Holy Land by Nina Fischer                                        
  • Beholding the Holy City: Changes in the Iconic Representation of Jerusalem in the 21th Century by Dana Hercbergs                                        

Discussion

Maristella Botticini, Zvi Eckstein                                         The Chosen Few
How Education Shaped Jewish History, 70-1492
Discussion by Cristiana Facchini Discussion by Sergio Della Pergola

Reviews

  • Pál Hatos and Attila Novák (eds.) Between Minority and Majority
    Hungarian and Jewish/Israeli Ethnical and Cultural Experiences in Recent Centuries
    Ferenc Laczó                                        
  • Klaus Kempter Joseph Wulf
    Ein Historikerschicksal in Deutschland
    Ulrich Wyrwa                                        
  • Asher Salah L’epistolario di Marco Mortara (1815-1894)
    Un rabbino italiano tra riforma e ortodossia
    Carlotta Ferrara degli Uberti                                        

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Focus

  • Travels to the “Holy Land”: Perceptions, Representations and Narratives by Serena Di Nepi and Arturo Marzano                                        
  • “Thousands great saints”: Evliya Çelebi in Ottoman Palestine by Yaron Ben-Naeh                                        
  • Images, Views and Landscapes of the Holy Land. Catholic and Protestant Travels to Ottoman Palestine during the 19th Century by Paolo Maggiolini                                        
  • Travels of Russians to the Holy Land in the 19th Century by Simona Merlo                                        
  • An Unusual Traveler: Ida Pfeiffer’s Visit to the Holy Land in 1842 by Jennifer Michaels                                        
  • Stillness and Motion: Depicting the Urban Landscape of Palestine in the 19th Century by Guy Galazka                                        
  • Encounters of a Third Kind: Mark Twain, William C. Prime and Protestant American Holy Land Narratives by Milette Shamir                                        
  • "With Eyes towards Zion": Visions of the Holy Land in Romanian Synagogues by Ilia Rodov                                        
  • Visiting British Palestine: Zionist travelers to Eretz Israel by Arturo Marzano                                        
  • Graphic Novels Explore an (Un-)Holy Land by Nina Fischer                                        
  • Beholding the Holy City: Changes in the Iconic Representation of Jerusalem in the 21th Century by Dana Hercbergs                                        

Discussion

Zvi Eckstein and Maristella Botticini                                        
The Chosen Few
How Education Shaped Jewish History, 70-1492
Discussion by Cristiana Facchini
Discussion by Sergio Della Pergola

Reviews

Pál Hatos and Attila Novák (eds.) Between Minority and Majority
Hungarian and Jewish/Israeli Ethnical and Cultural Experiences in Recent Centuries
 by Ferenc Laczó                                        
Klaus Kempter Joseph Wulf
Ein Historikerschicksal in Deutschland
 by Ulrich Wyrwa                                        
Asher Salah L’epistolario di Marco Mortara (1815-1894)
Un rabbino italiano tra riforma e ortodossia
 by Carlotta Ferrara degli Uberti