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Space and Place in Jewish Studies is a valuable introduction to the roles that locations, real and imagined, have played in Jewish historical experiences, literary and artistic works, and scholarship. --Sh'ma: A Journal of Jewish Responsibility Written in an engaging and accessible style, Mann's contribution to the Key Words in Jewish Studies series from Rutgers University Press offers a rich and carefully historicized meditation on the relevance of contemporary spatial theory to Jewish cultural analysis... Full of fresh insight, and establishing a spatial lexicon that compellingly reveals the extent to which time and space are mutually imbricated in Jewish culture, Space and Place in Jewish Studies is bound to become an essential reference for Jewish studies students and scholars. --Studies in American Jewish Literature

Written in an engaging and accessible style, Mann's contribution to the Key Words in Jewish Studies series from Rutgers University Press offers a rich and carefully historicized meditation on the relevance of contemporary spatial theory to Jewish cultural analysis... Full of fresh insight, and establishing a spatial lexicon that compellingly reveals the extent to which time and space are mutually imbricated in Jewish culture, Space and Place in Jewish Studies is bound to become an essential reference for Jewish studies students and scholars.

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BARBARA E. MANN is an associate professor of Hebrew literature at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York. She is the author of A Place in History: Modernism, Tel Aviv, and the Creation of Jewish Urban Space and co-editor in-chief of Prooftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary History.

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