Main entry:

Lipis, Mimi Levy.

Title & Author:

Symbolic houses in Judaism : how objects and metaphors construct hybrid places of belonging / Mimi Levy Lipis.

Publication:

Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., ©2011.

Description:

xvi, 246 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Series:

Ashgate studies in architecture series

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Situating the house. Architectural foundations -- influences from gender studies -- Strategies of analysis -- The ritual houses. The iconography of the house in ritual objects -- The local -- The land of Israel, Jerusalem, and the temple -- The Hebrew Bible -- God's presence -- Hybrid spaces -- The house as a metaphor. The book as house -- The community as house -- The covenant as house -- Women, building, and God -- Spaces and places in the Sukkah. Approaching the Sukkah -- Textual constructions -- Spatial manifestations -- Of gardens and cities -- Beyond architecture.

Summary:

Investigating Jewish spatial practices by exploring the symbol of the house in Judaism, this book examines two groups of houses: ritual objects based on the iconology of the house (ritual houses) and house metaphors (the text, community and the covenant with god as house). This unique pairing is explored as place-making tools which exist in a constant state of tension between diaspora and belonging. Containing many photographs of historical and contemporary artefacts from Europe, Israel and the United States, this book maps out the intersection of architecture, Jewish studies, cultural and gender studies and opens up the discussion of distinctly Jewish objects and metaphors to discourses taking place outside explicitly Jewish contexts.

ISBN:

9781409421047 (hardback ; alk. paper)
140942104X (hardback ; alk. paper)
9781409421047 (ebook)
140942104X (ebook)

Subject:

Dwellings Symbolic aspects.
Judaism and architecture.
Jewish art and symbolism Themes, motives.
Home Religious aspects Judaism.
Habitations Aspect symbolique.
Judaïsme et architecture.
Symbolisme juif Thèmes, motifs.
Foyer Aspect religieux Judaïsme.
Judentum
Haus
Kunst
Religiöse Kunst
Sakralbau
Symbol
Ikonologie
Judisk arkitektur.
Bostäder symboliska aspekter.
Judisk konst teman och motiv.

Added entries:

Ashgate studies in architecture series.

How objects and metaphors construct hybrid places of belonging

Holdings:

Location: Library main 274435
Call No.: BIB 208158
Status: Available