Michael Feige – författare

This title describes and examines the attempts of Gush Emunim, a religious nationalistic social movement, to construct Israeli identity, collective memory, and sense of place. Gush Emunim traces its roots to the 1967 Six Day War and the development of a Greater Israel ideology, which sought to maintain Israeli control of the West Bank and other newly acquired territories. The fundamentalist religious movement became a political force by constructing settlements within contested territory and is one of the key players in the Israeli - Palestinian conflict. In ""Settling in the Hearts"", Michael Feige analyzes the success of Gush Emunim through an examination of its ideology, practices, and symbolic construction of space and time. He argues that by constructing the meaning of contested territories as a national homeland, the ideological settlers attempt to redefine Zionism, Israel, and Judaism. In the first section of this volume, Feige explores how the Gush Emunim settlers reinterpret Jewish history, secular Zionist ideology, religious faith, and the Bible to discern the settlers' attitudes toward the Jewish exile experience. Feige identifies the crucial principles at work in the settlers' attempts to appropriate land, particularly in their use of collective memory, referring both to ancient times and to more contemporary events. In the second section, he presents fascinating case studies of Jewish settlements that Gush Emunim built beyond the green lines, in important symbolic centers such as Hebron, Ofra, and Gush. The concluding section analyzes the contemporary changes, conflicts, and crises that have affected Gush Emunim in the last year. ""Settling in the Hearts"" is based on a variety of qualitative sources, including interviews, participant observation, settlers' publications, and visual documents. Its novel way of understanding one of the most crucial factors affecting Israeli society and the Israeli - Palestinian conflict will be of interest to Israeli and Middle Eastern studies scholars and readers wanting to learn more about the complex dynamics of politics in the Middle East.

Analyses by the Israeli sociologist Michael Feige embraced every aspect of the State of Israel. He examined the ever-changing and complex identity of Israelis; how they remember and commemorate themselves; the long- and short-term conceptions of time of the left- and right-wing political movements; the spacial concept of the settlers; myths underlying the lives and deaths of its citizens; and the dialectical vicissitudes of the real and imagined Israel. The book contains material from Professor Feiges literary output, contextualized in an Introduction by David Ohana. Chapters delve into the meaning of Israeli signs and symbols; the semiotics of secular spaces (sites of disasters and graves of political and religious leaders); the semiotics of historical time and daily existence; forms of commemoration (of figures like David Ben-Gurion, Yitzhak Rabin, airforce pilots, a female settler and a peace activist). Feige scrutinized communities formed around political cells, the processes of fragmentation and globalization in Israel, the traumas and scars from the Yom Kippur War, the evacuation of settlements, and the killing of Yitzhak Rabin. Feiges scrutiny illuminated Israeli society in myriad ways. He was a sociologist among historians and a historian among sociologists, and internationally acknowledged as having an extraordinary ability to convey sociological meaning and structure to Israels radical political culture as expressed in its social actions and underlying mythology. Semiotics of Israeli Space and Time is not only an essential sociological toolbox for students and an historical masterpiece for the wider Israeli public to better understand the society to which they belong, but a commemorative volume to honour his life and work. Michael was murdered on 8 June 2016 when two Palestinian gunmen opened fire in the Sarona Market in Tel Aviv.

Die landwirtschaftliche Produktion bildete eine der zentralen Aufgabe römischer Villen. Anlagen zur Verarbeitung der Agrarprodukte waren für das Funktionieren der Landgüter daher von essentieller Bedeutung. Gerade mit Blick auf Italien, das Kernland der Villenkultur, stützte sich das Bild dieser Einrichtungen lange Jahrzehnte aber auf wenige, gut bekannte Beispiele. Vor diesem Hintergrund unternimmt der Autor eine systematische Zusammenstellung und Analyse der mittlerweile recht zahlreichen Reste landwirtschaftlich genutzter Villen im republikanischen und frühkaiserzeitlichen Mittelitalien. Die Untersuchung fokussiert dabei Installationen zur Verarbeitung von Wein, Oliven und Getreide, den sog. cash crops der römischen Agrarwirtschaft. Im Zentrum steht die Frage der räumlichen Organisation der landwirtschaftlichen Produktionsanlagen und ihr Verhältnis zum übrigen Villengebäude – allen voran den teils aufwendigen Wohnarealen. Die vergleichende Betrachtung der Anlagen offenbart bereits für die Frühphase der Villenwirtschaft regional spezifische Konzepte in der Ausstattung und räumlichen Organisation der Landgüter. Die detaillierte Analyse dieser unterschiedlichen Konzepte erlaubt Rückschlüsse auf Prozesse des Technologietransfers, aber auch auf regionale Akteure und Wirtschaftsstrategien, die die Ausprägung der Villenwirtschaft in Mittelitalien entscheidend beeinflusst haben.