The Jewish Quarter after 1967: A case study on the creation of an ideological-cultural landscape in Jerusalem's old city

Journal of Urban History

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 775-792

  Bar, Doron ^a   Rubin, Rehav ^b  

^a Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Collective memory; Cultural landscape; Jerusalem; Jewish Quarter; Symbolic landscape

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL LANDSCAPE; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; IDEOLOGY; NEIGHBORHOOD; RECONSTRUCTION; RELIGION;

ISRAEL; JERUSALEM [ISRAEL];

EID: 80054824843     PISSN: 00961442     EISSN: 15526771     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0096144211415634     Document Type: Article

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