Desert in the Promised Land - Yael Zerubavel

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

Stream episode Desert in the Promised Land: The Politics and Semiotics of Space in Israeli Culture by St Antony's College, Oxford podcast

Desert In The Promised Land - Yael Zerubavel

Desert in the Promised Land: Nature, Settlement, and the Politics of Space

A Situation: A Tree in Palestine

Association of Jewish Studies — Virtual Exhibit

Negeb/Negev

View of Ephemera of a Promised Land: Two Travel Guides in a Reconstituted Jerusalemite Family Archive

View of Ephemera of a Promised Land: Two Travel Guides in a Reconstituted Jerusalemite Family Archive

The Joshua Generation Princeton University Press