Israel, the Impossible Land(Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture) Book

	Acknowledgments
	Translator's Note
	Introduction	1
1	The Promised Land	7
	"In the Beginning," Ambiguity	9
	A Heritage Deferred	12
	Exile and the Desert	16
	The Memory of an Initial Expropriation	20
	A Dismembered Land	24
	Sedentary People, Nomadic God	27
	If I Forget Thee, O Jerusalem...	30
2	The Holy Land	34
	New Horizons	34
	A Partial Reappropriation	37
	The Center and the Periphery	41
	Living Without the Temple	46
	A "Deterritorialized" Judaism?	50
	The Legal Land	52
	Holy Land, Holy People	56
3	The Land of Dreams	60
	Other Times: The Land's Middle Ages?	60
	Stars and Climates	65
	The Heart of the World	69
	Divine Land	71
	The Land as Metaphor	75
	A Taste of Paradise	79
	Nearby Lands, Distant Lands	82
4	The Exiled Land	87
	Land and Liturgy	88
	The Land and the Law: Rabbinic Hermeneutical Exercises	94
	The Duty of Alwah or the Duty of Exile?	98
	The Forbidden Land	102
	Encounters with Palestine	107
	Voyagers and "Geographers"	110
	Nostalgia	116
5	The Rediscovered Land	121
	"Here" and "There"	121
	The Christian Rediscovery of Palestine	131
	Palestine Revisited by the Jews	137
	Ancient Land, New Land(s)	142
6	The Recreated Land	152
	To Whom Does the Land Belong?	152
	The Cult of the Land	157
	The Symbolism of Pioneering	160
	The Myths to the Rescue of the Land	168
	The Land of Historians	179
	Negation of Exile, Negation of Self	187
7	The Impossible Land	195
	A Culture of Rootedness	195
	Interminable Exile	199
	The Return of the Promised Land	208
	The Coming of Post-Zionism	212
	The Wandering Israeli	224
	Epilogue	231
	Afterword	237
	Chronology	241
	Notes	250
	Select Bibliography	270
	The Authors	287
	Index of Names of Persons and Organizations	288
	Index of Place-Names	292