TY - BOOK ID - 78495491 TI - Landscape and Ideology PY - 2016 SN - 3110491486 3110491079 9783110493795 3110493799 9783110493788 3110493780 9783110491487 9783110491074 PB - Berlin De Gruyter DB - UniCat KW - Burial KW - Zionism. KW - Friedhöfe. KW - Israel. KW - Zivilreligion. KW - HISTORY / Middle East / Israel & Palestine. KW - Jews KW - Zionist movement KW - Jewish nationalism KW - Burial customs KW - Burying-grounds KW - Graves KW - Interment KW - Archaeology KW - Public health KW - Coffins KW - Dead KW - Funeral rites and ceremonies KW - Grave digging KW - Political aspects KW - Zionism KW - Politics and government KW - Restoration KW - Israel KW - History. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78495491 AB - The book deals with the formative years of Israel’s evolving symbolic landscape (1904–1967). It covers the stories of a few dozen Jews who passed away in the Diaspora and later their remains were taken to be buried for the second time (and sometimes for the third) in Israel. These were Zionists and politicians, writers and poets, heroes and public activists whose common denominator was that they all passed away in the Diaspora, far and detached from the national homeland that they fought for before their tragic death. Only later, in an act of repair, their coffins were sent to be buried in the “sacred” Zionist soil, in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv or Dgania. These graves became pilgrimage sites and contributed to the design of Israel’s landscape. The book examines how and why such great effort was made to bring their remains to Israel for reinterment, and how the funerals and graves of the public figures became state symbols and national instruments for establishing Israeli sovereignty over the land. ER -