Hanukkah lamp from Jerusalem Coin

Obverse: 10 Lirot coin. Reverse: Hanukkah lamp from Jerusalem.

Jerusalem Coin

Obverse: Silver 10 Lirot Israeli. 4 Roman style pillars (gate to the Temple). Reverse: Stylized design of Jerusalem, emblem of the State of Israel.

Jerusalem Rotary Jubilee Commemorative Medal

Obverse: Stylized number 50, 5 is created by olive branch, 0 by the rotary wheel. Reverse: Stylized design of Jerusalem.

Jerusalem Peace Commemorative Medal

Obverse: Stylized inscription. Reverse: Dove of Peace carrying olive branch, in the center of the medal.

Jerusalem Commemorative Medal

Obverse: Stylized picture of Jerusalem atop mountains surrounded by clouds. Reverse: Bar Kochba coin from Jerusalem, in the center four columns, an arc, a symbol of the Torah.

Jerusalem Commemorative Coin

Obverse: Stylized picture of Jerusalem atop mountain surrounded by clouds. Reverse: Bar Kochba coin from Jerusalem. In the center of the coin 4 columns, an arc, symbol of the Torah.

Jerusalem City Museum Commemorative Medal

Obverse: Stylized design of the Tower of David. Reverse: The emblem of Jerusalem in the center, the word 'Jerusalem' in different languages.

Jerusalem of Gold Commemorative Medal

Obverse: Stylized panorama of Jerusalem with historical landmarks. Reverse: In the center the emblem of Jerusalem with the word Jerusalem in different languages.

Gates of Jerusalem Commemorative Medal

Obverse: Map of Jerusalem Old City's wall with all the gates and their names. Reverse: In the center, one of the Jerusalem's gates, the Old City in the background.

Recently discovered Iron Age lion figurines from Jerusalem

Abstract: More than 500 Iron Age figurines were discovered in the 2005–2010 Western Wall Plaza excavations in Jerusalem.1 The excavations revealed a large building, probably of the four-room type. Many figurines were discovered in this building, others in fills below and above it, dating in general to the eighth-sixth centuries BCE. Here we focus on two heads most likely depicting lions, one of them exceptional—holding another animal in its mouth. We discuss the identification of these figurines as lions, the lion motif in a variety of media in the Southern Levant, and finally recent theories concerning lions in the Hebrew Bible and their relation to Yahweh. We suggest that the two Western Wall Plaza figurines represent lions as wild animals, in similarity to other figurines of wild animals made on occasion by Judean coroplasts.

How far from Jerusalem? Tropical customs and the question of race in the Book of John Mandeville

The Book of John Mandeville, while ostensibly a pilgrimage guide documenting an English knight’s journey into the East, is an ideal text in which to study the developing concept of race in the European Middle Ages. The Mandeville-author’s sense of place and morality are inextricably linked to each other: Jerusalem is the center of his world, which necessarily forces Africa and Asia to occupy the spiritual periphery. Most inhabitants of Mandeville’s landscapes are not monsters in the physical sense, but at once startlingly human and irreconcilably alien in their customs. Their religious heresies, disordered sexual appetites, and monstrous acts of cannibalism label them as fallen state of the European Christian self. Mandeville’s monstrosities lie not in the fantastical, but the disturbingly familiar, coupling recognizable humans with a miscarriage of natural law. In using real people to illustrate the moral degeneracy of the tropics, Mandeville’s ethnography helps shed light on the missing link between medieval monsters and modern race theory.

[Book Review] Vardah Shiloh, Millon 'Ivri-'Arami-'Aššuri bs-Lahag Yihude Zaxo (A New Neo-Aramaic Dictionary: Jewish Dialect of Zakho). Volume I: 'alef—nun\ Volume II: samex-tav. V. Shilo (16 Ben-Gamla Street), Jerusalem 1995. Pp. xiv + 488 (Vol. I); 489-963 (Vol. II). (Modern Hebrew, Zakho Jewish Neo-Aramaic).

Review of: Vardah Shiloh, Millon 'Ivri-'Arami-'Aššuri bs-Lahag Yihude Zaxo (A New Neo-Aramaic Dictionary: Jewish Dialect of Zakho). Volume I: 'alef—nun\ Volume II: samex-tav. V. Shilo (16 Ben-Gamla Street), Jerusalem 1995. Pp. xiv + 488 (Vol. I); 489-963 (Vol. II). (Modern Hebrew, Zakho Jewish Neo-Aramaic). Hbk.

On the Border of Indeterminacy: The Separation Wall in East Jerusalem

Drawing on a perspective which takes into account the convergences of sovereign and biopolitical ruling apparatuses, the aim of this article is to provide a comprehensive view of the Separation Wall constructed by Israel in East Jerusalem, and, through it, of Israeli control of Palestinian East Jerusalem. Neither a comprehensive border, nor a mere barrier, the Separation Wall which is being constructed in Jerusalem operates to reinstates sovereign power in arrays of governmentality for the purpose of drawing on the ability of sovereignty to appropriate legitimacy for the territorialisation of governmentality. This article claims that these territorialised arrays of governmentality give rise to processes of racialisation, by maintaining a grip on the communities of Palestinians in East Jerusalem and sustaining them in an intermediate position, standing in the way of their full integration into the Israeli population while severing their existing connections with the Palestinians in the West Bank. © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.