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Having and Belonging: Homes and Museums in Israel 9781785331350
Table of contents :
Contents
Illustrations
Preface—Switzerland?
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Establishing Collections, Building a Nation
2 Exhibiting Belief: Religious Objects in a Secular Institution Mrs Marantz and the Israel Museum
3 More Than One Story to Tell: Mrs Sapir-Bergstein and Beit Hatfutsot, the Museum of the Jewish People
4 A Migration Museum and Its Visitors Mrs Kaduri and the Babylonian Jewry Heritage Center
5 Indigenous Curation Provides a Second Glance: Mr Yeshayahu and Bahalachin, the Ethiopian Jewish Heritage and Cultural Center
6 Medals Rather Than High Art: Mr Pens and the Museum of the Jewish Soldier in World War II
7 On Colors and Borders: Mrs Romem and the People of Israel Website
8 A Holiday as Object: Mrs Salameh and Beit HaGefen
9 The Geographical Position of Art and Home: Mrs Abu Ilaw and the Umm el Fahem Art Gallery
10 Belonging
To Conclude: Switzerland Once More
Bibliography
Index
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Having and Belonging
Material Mediations: People and Things in a World of Movement Edited by Birgit Meyer, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Utrecht University, and Maruška Svašek, School of History and Anthropology, Queens University, Belfast During the last fe
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(“May you merit many blessed years!”)
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The American Sephardi Federation
In honor of Rosh HaShana, the ASF’s Sephardi World Weekly is pleased to offer the following “Letter from the Land of Israel”:
The central mitzvah, or commandment, that is observed on Rosh HaShana is listening to the sound of the shofar. According to Rabbi Sa’adya Gaon (882-942), we blow the shofar on Rosh HaShana in order “to remind ourselves of the experience at Mt. Sinai.” What happened at Mt. Sinai? “The sound of the shofar grew louder and louder” (Shemot/Exodus 19:19) and the Jewish people were offered a vision of becoming a Holy Nation that comprehends all of life in light of the Divine.
Hakham Rabbi Ben Zion Meir Hai Uziel (1880-1953), the first Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel, rearticulated this all-embracing vision of spiritual excellence through the word teudah, a term that in contemporary Hebrew means “document” or “certificate,” but that in R’Uziel’s time meant aim, goal, or purpose. According to R’Uziel: “Judaism’s mission (teudah) is nothing less than the exalted aspiration to elevate humanity… to the highest level of human perfection.” He then extended this perfection to embrace the “scientific… artisti
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