The Contested Ownership of Yosef Trumpeldor’s Arm-Reliquary: A View from a Christian Perspective
The article discusses an object that once belonged to a singular individual, which has been enshrined in a glass vitrine to be seen and admired: the prosthetic arm of Jewish war hero and pioneer Yosef Trumpeldor (1880–1920). A debate over its possession has long endured between the Tel-Hai Courtyard...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Penn Press
2015
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| In: |
The Jewish quarterly review
Year: 2015, Volume: 105, Issue: 3, Pages: 399-414 |
| Further subjects: | B
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B Tel-Hai B site of memory B Yosef Trumpeldor B saints / cult of relics B Tel Yosef B arm reliquaries B vitrine B Martyr B prosthetic arm B Technological reliquaries |
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| Summary: | The article discusses an object that once belonged to a singular individual, which has been enshrined in a glass vitrine to be seen and admired: the prosthetic arm of Jewish war hero and pioneer Yosef Trumpeldor (1880–1920). A debate over its possession has long endured between the Tel-Hai Courtyard Museum and Trumpeldor’s House in Kibbutz Tel Yosef. The prosthetic arm is evaluated here from the perspective of medieval arm reliquaries. The zeal surrounding the object in Tel Yosef and the longing for it in Tel-Hai are analyzed using terminology and ideology borrowed from the realm of the Christian cult of relics. |
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| ISSN: | 1553-0604 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The Jewish quarterly review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/jqr.2015.0014 |