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Yossi Katz - Judaism and Human Geography, Inbunden

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Judaism and Human Geography

Av Yossi Katz

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Judaism is a religion and a way of life that combines beliefs as well as practical commandments and traditions, encompassing all spheres of life. Some of the numerous precepts emerge directly from the Torah (the Law of Moses). Others are commanded by Oral Law, rulings of illustrious Jewish legal scholars throughout the generations, and rabbinic responsa composed over hundreds of years and still being written today. Like other religions, Judaism has also developed unique symbols that have become virtually exclusive to it, such as the Star of David and the menorah. This book argues that Judaism impacts human geography in significant ways: it shapes the environment and space of its believers, thus creating a unique “Jewish geography.”
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Yossi Katz, winner of the 2016 Israel Prize in Geography, is a professor in the Department of Geography, Bar-Ilan University, Israel. Most of Katz’s research work relates to various issues of settlement, society, state, and community in the contemporary history of the Land of Israel and the State of Israel.

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"A thesis of the book is that the diverse ways communities adapted to different geographical areas and adhered to traditions, customs, and habits give the Jewish community landscape unique hermeneutic resonance, and reflects how Judaism shaped it… The book demonstrates that Jewish geography is often shaped by the requirements of Judaism, thus making for a unique Jewish geography reflective of halakhah, customs, and folkways of Jews. The book pioneers the way for further research for geographers of religious landscapes… The [diverse chapters] shed light on better understanding Jewish cultural landscapes, and offer insights into human geography across the globe. Recommended."—David B Levy, Touro College LCW, NYC, AJL Reviews“In this insightful anthology, Yossi Katz… is specifically interested in… dipping into the relationships between particular Jewish communities and their physical surroundings. The author, one of the Jewish state’s leading geographers with respect to the study of how Jewish communities, both in Israel and in the Diaspora, have shaped and been shaped by their surroundings, focusses here on the human–environment relationship as it has played itself out amongst various urban and rural Orthodox Jewish communities in the Jewish state, in the United States and in Canada… [T]he author’s anthology clearly represents a very informative and important introduction to the field of human geography in the Jewish state, as well as in the Diaspora.”—David Rodman, Israel Affairs

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