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<p>At once an ecological phenomenon and a cultural construction, the desert has varied associations within Zionist and Israeli culture. In the Judaic textual tradition, it evokes exile and punishment, yet is also a site for origin myths, the divine presence, and sanctity. Secular Zionism developed its own spin on the duality of the desert as the romantic site of Jews' biblical roots that inspired the Hebrew culture, and as the barren land outside the Jewish settlements in Palestine, featuring th

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Author

Yael Zerubavel

Publisher

Stanford, California: Stanford University Press

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781503607606

Category

history

Subjects

Linguistics, Literary Criticism, Semiotics & Theory

Updated

2026-03-25