Desert in the Promised Land - Yael Zerubavel

At once an ecological phenomenon and a cultural construction, the desert has varied associations within Zionist and Israeli culture. In the Judaic textual tradition, it evokes exile and punishment, yet is also a site for origin myths, the divine presence, and sanctity. Secular Zionism developed its own spin on the duality of the desert as the romantic site of Jews

Seventy Years in the Desert - Jewish Review of Books

Seventy Years in the Desert - Jewish Review of Books

Israeli Scholar Disputes Founding Myth

Introducing the 2016-17 Frankel Institute Fellows

Association of Jewish Studies — Virtual Exhibit

PDF) The Reinvention of the Promised Land. Utopian Space and Time in the Soviet Jewish Exodus Literature. In: East European Jewish Affairs, Volume 45, Issue 1 (2015), p. 79-108.

PDF) Ephemera of a Promised Land: Two Travel Guides in a Reconstituted Jerusalemite Family Archive

Sights and Reflections

Bibliography Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology