Book ID: CBB589984320

Portraying the Land: Hebrew Maps of the Land of Israel from Rashi to the Early 20th Century (2019)

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The book presents and discusses a large corpus of Jewish maps of the Holy Land that were drawn by Jewish scholars from the 11th to the 20th century, and thus fills a significant lacuna both in the history of cartography and in Jewish studies. The maps depict the biblical borders of the Holy Land, the allotments of the tribes, and the forty years of wanderings in the desert. Most of these maps are in Hebrew although there are several in Yiddish, Ladino and in European languages. The book focuses on four aspects: it presents an up-to-date corpus of known maps of various types and genres; it suggests a classification of these maps according to their source, shape and content; it presents and analyses the main topics that were depicted in the maps; and it puts the maps in their historical and cultural contexts, both within the Jewish world and the sphere of European cartography of their time. The book is an innovative contribution to the fields of history of cartography and Jewish studies. It is written for both professional readers and the general public. The Hebrew edition (2014), won the Izhak Ben-Zvi Prize.

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Review Haim Goren (2019) Review of "Portraying the Land: Hebrew Maps of the Land of Israel from Rashi to the Early 20th Century". Imago Mundi: A Review of Early Cartography (pp. 210-211). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Jaynes, Jeffrey
Arkan, Merve Senem
Quixley, Robert Charles Edmund
Alessandra Dattero
Storms, Martijn
Ormelinge, Ferjan
Concepts
Maps; atlases
Cartography
Geography
Science, general histories
Science and religion
Christianity
Time Periods
Early modern
Modern
Medieval
Renaissance
Ancient
20th century
Places
Europe
China
Japan
Italy
India
Famagusta
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