| ID | 149807 |
| Title Proper | Notion of Jerusalem as the search for meaning |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Rieken, Jakob |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Few cities evoke feelings as immediate, visceral and primal as Jerusalem. The name is synonymous with salvation and destruction, the beginning and the end of time. Few who have visited it could escape its pull. It is fascinating, not just for its religious symbolism but also for the intense emotions people feel in encountering it. Even with the distant gaze of a secular humanist, I cannot help but feel connected to the connection, as it were, connected with the human search for meaning so spatially tied to the city.1 Jerusalem leaves no one untouched, despite the banalities of its overzealous souvenir hawkers, crawling traffic, overwhelming noise and overpriced hotels. |
| `In' analytical Note | Palestine Israel Journal Vol. 21, No.4; 2016: p.32-37 |
| Journal Source | Palestine Israel Journal 2016-03 21, 4 |
| Key Words | Jerusalem ; Archaic |