Symbolic Houses in Judaism : How Objects and Metaphors Construct Hybrid Places of Belonging - Mimi Levy Lipis

Symbolic Houses in Judaism

How Objects and Metaphors Construct Hybrid Places of Belonging

By: Mimi Levy Lipis

Paperback | 14 October 2024

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Investigating Jewish spatial practices by exploring the symbol of the house in Judaism, this book examines two groups of houses: ritual objects based on the iconology of the house (ritual houses) and house metaphors (the text, community and the covenant with god as house). This unique pairing is explored as place-making tools which exist in a constant state of tension between diaspora and belonging. Containing many photographs of historical and contemporary artefacts from Europe, Israel and the United States, this book maps out the intersection of architecture, Jewish studies, cultural and gender studies and opens up the discussion of distinctly Jewish objects and metaphors to discourses taking place outside explicitly Jewish contexts.
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'Mimi Levy Lipis takes her readers on a lively journey through the multitude of symbolic houses in Judaism. Her pioneering work links diverse disciplines, exploring both real and metaphorical houses. Through the splendid visual material of the sukkah, taken from her photographic field research, symbolic houses and ritual places become lived spaces.' Alexandra Nocke, Researcher in Cultural Studies, Exhibition Curator and Author

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