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Chrétiens et Sociétés, 2011 This article deals with the ideas and projects of millenarist Christians in Palestine in the 19th century which in Europe and North America was characterized by a renewed interest for the Holy Land.
Falestin Naïli
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The Gender of Fossil Fuels: Oil and Domestic Perils in Mandate Palestine
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores the gender dynamics behind the rise of kerosene – an oil derivative – as the main domestic fuel in Mandate Palestine. It argues that these dynamics were constitutive in determining who began to use oil, where and for what purposes, in turn demonstrating that women in Palestine were the promoters and targets of a campaign ...
Shira Pinhas
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La moltiplicazione dei luoghi sacri lungo le vie d’acqua per Gerusalemme nel tardo Medioevo [PDF]
, 2017 A description of the sacred topography worked out by late Medieval Holy Land-pilgrims and seafarer along the searoutes between Venice and Palestine. This paper emphasizes the important role played by international voyagers in the selection, promotion and
Bacci, Michele
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Журнал Фронтирных ИсследованийThe article examines the writings of the inhabitants of Russian monasteries (nuns and novices) that describe their pilgrimage to the Holy Land (Palestine) in the second half of the 19th–early 20th centuries.
Valery V. Tsys, Olga P. Tsys
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Landscape Archaeology in the Wādī al-ʿArab Region
Journal of Landscape Ecology, 2017 As an integral part of the Gadara-Region-Project, a survey of the Wādī al-‘Arab region was conducted during the years 2009-2012, by the Biblical-Archaeological Institute Wuppertal and the German Protestant Institute for Archaeology in order to achieve a ...
Soennecken Katja +3 more
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The Linguistic Creation of a City in the 16th-century Polish Accounts from Travels to the Holy Land
Studia Ceranea, 2020 The article tries to describe the linguistic creation of a city in Polish 16th-century diaries from journeys to the Holy Land. During long trips, the authors visited many exotic, for the Polish traveller, cities and towns to whom they devoted a lot of ...
Rafał Zarębski
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‘From the Fields Into the Bars’: The Story of Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977)
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In 1977, an Israeli transgender woman, Judy Spotheim, published an autobiographical novel entitled The Cut. It describes the emergence of a trans community in the commercial‐sex areas of Tel Aviv‐Jaffa, hoping to humanise trans women (coccinelles). This article is the first to study the novel and present a biography of Spotheim.
Gil Engelstein, Iris Rachamimov
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Service quality and technology for performing Hajj [PDF]
, 2014 This case highlights the success of Lembaga Tabung Haji as the sole provider of Hajj (pilgrimage) management services for Muslims residing in Malaysia to perform Hajj in the Holy Land.
Abd Rahman, Azmawani +2 more
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Визуальная теология, 2023 In the context of hierotopy, a discipline that studies the creation of sacred spaces as a specific spiritual and artistic creative activity, two new research problems have been postulated: sacred space creators as a phenomenon, and the Holy Land re ...
Alexei Lidov / Алексей Михайлович Лидов
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT An analysis of the dual biographies, economic and domestic, of Manuela Xiqués, an enslaver from nineteenth‐century Cuba and Spain, deepens our understanding of the role of European and Creole women in the nineteenth‐century Atlantic. This essay foregrounds the role of literature, namely family biography, as a locus of the processes of ...
Lisa Surwillo, Martín Rodrigo Alharilla
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