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Yom Yerushalayim: On Not Yet, Always Already, and the [Im]possibility of Crossing Over

JL;DR SUMMARY Aton Holzer's exploration of the modern Jewish relationship with Israel and Zionism delves into a tension between inherited religious longing and contemporary political realities. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish HistoryZionismDiasporaJewish ThoughtPrayerShaul MagidExileMessianismJudah Ha Levi

Places mentioned

Jerusalem, Israel
"The sense of longing for the Land of Israel was inculcated within me at a crucial, precritical time, the first ten to thirteen years of life, when I sensed God to be everywhere, all the time."
Israel
"students around 1840.[8] Not only the Khazars, but also the early Muslims (and for Abraham Abulafia and others, even the Mongol hordes who nearly liberated the land from the Mamluks) were regarded as messianic warriors, perhaps the ten lost tribes of I"
United States
"Having been raised as a religiously observant Jew in the United States, in a family with a rabbi and rebbitzen for patriarch and matriarch whose lodestar was Jewish literacy, liturgy and learning, who went on all fours with two year-old me to teach me t"
Safed, Northern District, Israel
"prior to the renaissance in Safed, that city became a focus for burial of diaspora Jews, as well as elderly Jews who left their families to come die in the Holy Land"
Beit Shemesh, Northern District, Israel
"I came clear-eyed, with a career in Tel Aviv and plenty of possessions, living in the anglo preserve of Beit Shemesh, in the space between always already and not yet."
Kiryat Shmona, Northern District, Israel
"the lone outside guests in a hotel of mefunim, evacuees, from Kiryat Shemona the development town way up north that absorbs missiles in every Lebanon conflict."

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