塑造耶路撒冷：神圣中心的政治与诗学

《计算耶路撒冷》探索了希伯来作家如何想象耶路撒冷，无论是从流亡的距离还是从其神圣的城墙内。
两千年来，希伯来作家把他们从圣地的流放作为发明的许可证。塑造耶路撒冷的核心问题是：这些作家是如何在犹太复国主义的世纪里把他们的想象力“带回家”的？Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi发现，在整个二十世纪上半叶，希伯来作家流亡时所遵循的流亡习俗一直保持不变。即使在1948年以色列国建立后，东耶路撒冷及其圣地仍在阿拉伯人的控制之下，耶路撒冷仍在希伯来人的想象中被视为中介空间。只有在六日战争结束后，在希伯来政治和文化的每一个领域，靠近圣城的诱惑和困境才会变得尖锐。
从圣经和中世纪的经典文本到1967年后S·Y·阿格农和耶胡达·阿米卡的著作，耶路撒冷的形象都有。最终，德科文·埃兹拉希表明，如果耶路撒冷的不同居民要共存，犹太人在两千年的流亡中获得的智慧，正如他们在文学想象中所铭记的那样，必须重新发现。
Figuring Jerusalem: Politics and Poetics in the Sacred Center
Figuring Jerusalem explores how Hebrew writers have imagined Jerusalem, both from the distance of exile and from within its sacred walls.
For two thousand years, Hebrew writers used their exile from the Holy Land as a license for invention. The question at the heart of Figuring Jerusalem is this: how did these writers bring their imagination “home” in the Zionist century? Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi finds that the same diasporic conventions that Hebrew writers practiced in exile were maintained throughout the first half of the twentieth century. And even after 1948, when the state of Israel was founded but East Jerusalem and its holy sites remained under Arab control, Jerusalem continued to figure in the Hebrew imagination as mediated space. It was only in the aftermath of the Six Day War that the temptations and dilemmas of proximity to the sacred would become acute in every area of Hebrew politics and culture.
Figuring Jerusalem ranges from classical texts, biblical and medieval, to the post-1967 writings of S. Y. Agnon and Yehuda Amichai. Ultimately, DeKoven Ezrahi shows that the wisdom Jews acquired through two thousand years of exile, as inscribed in their literary imagination, must be rediscovered if the diverse inhabitants of Jerusalem are to coexist.

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