Research

Azaryahu, M. 2024. ’Invisible Cities and their name(s): insights into the (in)correctness of names. Miscellanea Geographica 28(4), DOI: 10.2478/mgrsd-2023-0047. [PDF]

Azaryahu, M.  & Foote, K. 2024. ’Homecoming: Returning to Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities after 50 years’. Miscellanea Geographica 28(4), 1-3.  [PDF]

Azaryahu, M. 2021. ’Connected Memories: The Founders’ Garden and Beit Yad LeBanim, Hadera’, in N. Lissovsky (ed.), Perspectives on the Work of Landscape Architect Zvi Dekel, Tel Aviv: Bavel, 84-99 (Hebrew).

Azaryahu, M. 2021. ’Street Naming and Shoah Remembrance: The Case of Tel Aviv-Yafo’, in M. Azaryahu, U. Gehring, F. Meyer, J. Picard and C. Späti (eds.), Between Commemoration and Amnesia. Forms of Holocaust Remembrance in Swiss and Transnational Perspectives, Köln-Weimar-Wien: böhlau, 149-160.

Azaryahu, M. 2020. Name-Making as Place-Making’, In L. Caiazzo, R. Coates and M. Azaryahu (eds.), Naming, Identity and Tourism. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Azaryahu, M. 2019. King George or King David? On Renaming the Colonial Past in Israel’. Zeitgeschichte 46(1), 15-38.

Azaryahu, M. 2019. Sha’ar Zion: Opening(s) of the Port of Tel Aviv’. In A. Tanikowski (ed.), Gdynia-Tel Awiw, Warsaw: Polin: Museum of the History of Polish Jews – Gdynia City Museum, 107-115.

Azaryahu, M. 2017. ‘Amongst the names: Gan-Habanim, Tel Aviv-Yafo’, in N. Lissovsky and T. Alon-Mozes (eds.), Gideon Sarig: Gardens for People, Israel 2017, 122-139 (Hebrew).

Azaryahu, M. 2017. “Revisiting East Berlin and Haifa: a Comparative Perspective on Renaming the Past” in Rose-Redwood, R., D. Alderman, and M, Azaryahu (eds.), The Political Life of Urban Streetscapes: Naming, Politics and Place, London and New York: Routledge, 56-73.

Troen I, Azaryahu, M. & Golan, A. 2017. ‘Israel: Geography, Demography, and Economy’, in: S. Ilan Troen and Rachel Fish (eds.), Essential Israel: Essays for the 21st Century, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 12-39.

Azaryahu, M. 2017. ‘Herzl in Tel Aviv: A Commemorative Journey’, in K. J. Kuhn, K. Sontag and W. Leimgruber (eds.), Lebenskunst: Erkundungen zu Biographie, Lebenswelt und Erinnerung, Köln-Weimar-Wien: Böhlau, 300-310.

Azaryahu, M.  2017. ‘Joppa’. Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception, De Gruyter.

Azaryahu, M.  2017. ‘Toponymy’. The International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment, and Technology, Wiley.

Azaryahu, M. 2016. ‘Wrecks to relics: battle remains and the formation of a battlescape, Sha’ar Ha’Gai, Israel’, in D. Drozdzewski, S. De Nardi and E. Waterton (eds.), Memory, Place and Identity: Commemoration and Remembrance of War and Conflict, London and New York: Routledge, 74-92. 

Azaryahu, M.  & Reiter Y. 2015. ‘The Geopolitics of Internment: An Inquiry into the Burial of Muhammad Ali in Jerusalem, 1931’. Israel Studies 20(1), 31-56. [PDF]

Azaryahu, M.  & Berkovsky, A. 2014. ‘On Flags’, in S. Shealtiel (ed.), Raise the Flag! Flags of Hashomer Hazair. One Hundred Years of the Movement, Givat Haviva: Yad Ya’ari, 12-27.

Azaryahu, M. 2013. ‘Erinnerungsverpflichtung und Erinnerungsgewebe. Gefallenen-gedenken in Israel’, in M. Hettling and J. Echternkamp (eds.), Gefallenengedenken im gobalen Vergleich, Munich: Oldenburg, 253-280.

Azaryahu, M. 2013. ‘The Herzliya Gymansium Building; Between Nostalgia and Memory’, in G. Raz, (ed.), Gymansium Days: The Herzliya Hebrew Gymansium, 1905-1959, Tel Aviv: The Eretz Israel Museum/the Hebrew Gymansium “Herzliya”, 71-82 (Hebrew).

Azaryahu, M. 2013. ‘Commemorative Renaming of Streets: The Case of East Berlin 1945-1951’, Ofakim Be’geografia 83, 22-39 (Hebrew).

Azaryahu, M. 2013. ‘Memory in the Landscape: Invisible Memorials – Three Case-Studies’, Cathedra 150, 211-238 (Hebrew). [PDF]

Azaryahu, M. 2012. ‘Rabin’s Road: The Politics of Toponymic Commemoration of Yitzhak Rabin in Israel’. Political Geography 31(2), 73-82.

Azaryahu, M. 2012. ‘Renaming the Past in post-Nazi Germany: Insights into the politics of street naming in Mannheim and Potsdam’. Cultural Geographies 19(3), 383-398.

Azaryahu, M. & Golan, A. 2012. ‘Photography, Memory and Ethnic Cleansing: The Fate of the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem, 1948—John Phillips’s Pictorial Record’, Israel Studies 17(2), 62-76. [PDF]

Azaryahu, M. 2012. ‘Hebrew, Arabic, English: The Politics of Multilingual Street Signs in Israeli Cities’, Social and Cultural Geography 13(5), 461-480.

Azaryahu, M. 2011. ‘Public Controversy and Commemorative Failure: Tel Aviv’s Monument to the Holocaust and National Revival’, Israel Studies 16(1), 129-148. [PDF]

Azaryahu, M. 2011. ‘The Critical Turn and Beyond: The Case of Commemorative Street Naming’, ACME (Critical Geographies) 10(1), 28-33. [PDF]

Azaryahu, M. 2011. ‘The Politics of Commemorative Street Renaming: Berlin 1945-1948’, Journal of Historical Geography 37(4), 483-492.

Rose-Redwood, R., Alderman, D. H. & Azaryahu, M. 2010. ‘Geographies of toponymic inscriptions: new directions in critical place-names studies’, Progress in Human Geography 30(4), 468-486.

Azaryahu, M. 2009. ‘’One of the World’s Coolest Cities”:  Tel Aviv at 100’, Israel Studies 14(3), vii-xii. [PDF]

Azaryahu, M. 2009. ‘Tel Aviv Birthdays: Anniversary Celebrations of the First Hebrew City 1929-1959’, Israel Studies 14(3), 1-20. [PDF]

Azaryahu, M. 2009. Rabin Road. Toponymic Commemorations of Yitzhak Rabin in the Israeli Landscape 1995-2005’, in I. Rosenson and O. Israeli (eds.), Living in Spirit: Studies in Education and Security in Honor of Haim Israeli, Tel Aviv: Ministry of Defense Press (Hebrew), 213-231.

Azaryahu, M. 2009. Naming the Past: Commemorative Street Names’, in L. Berg and J. Vuolteenaho (eds.), Critical Toponymies: Contested Politics of Place Naming, Farnham: Ashgate, 53-70.

Azaryahu, M. 2009. ‘Street Names and Iconography’. Elsevier’s International Encyclopedia of Human Geography.

Foote, K. & Azaryahu, M. 2009. ‘Semiotics’. Elsevier’s International Encyclopedia of Human Geography.

Foote E. & Azaryahu, M.  2009. ‘Sense of Place’. Elsevier’s International Encyclopedia of Human Geography.

Azaryahu, M. 2008. ‘Tel Aviv: Center, Periphery and the Cultural Geographies of an Aspiring Metropolis’. Social and Cultural Geography 9(3), 303-318.

Azaryahu, M. & Foote K. 2008. ’Historical Space as Narrative Medium: On the Configuration of Spatial Narratives of Time at Historical Sites’ GeoJournal 73(3), 179-194. [PDF]

Rose-Redwood, R., Alderman, D. H. & Azaryahu, M. 2008. ‘Collective Memory and the Politics of Urban Space: an introduction’, GeoJournal 73(3), 161-164. [PDF]

Azaryahu, M. 2008. ’The Formation of the Hebrew Sea in Pre-State Israel’, Modern Jewish Studies 7(3), 251-267.

Azaryahu, M. 2008. ‘State vs. Nation: Notes on Post-Nationalism’, in N. Rothenberg and E. Schweid (eds.), Studies on Jewish People, Identity and Nationality. Jerusalem: Van Leer Institute and Ha’Kibbutz Ha’Meuchad, 33-44 (Hebrew).

Azaryahu, M. 2008. Local Commemoration. Names for the streets of Be’er Sheva: 1973-1998’, in Y. Gradus and E. Meir-Glitzenstein (eds.), Be’er Sheva: Metropolis in the Making, Beer Sheva: Ben-Gurion University Press, 197-216 (Hebrew).

Azaryahu, M. & Golan A. 2007. ’Contested Beachscapes: Planning and debating Tel Aviv’s Seashore in the 1930s,’ Urban History 34(2), 278-295 (co-author: A. Golan).

Foote, K. & Azaryahu, M. 2007. ’Toward a Geography of Memory: Geographical Contribution to the Study of Commemoration and Memory,’ Journal of Political and Military Sociology 35(1), 125-144. [PDF]

Azaryahu, M. 2007. ‘Tel Aviv – between center and periphery’, in O. Heilbronner and M. Levin (eds.), Between Sderot and Sderot Rotschild: Center and Periphery in Israel. Tel Aviv: Resling, 167-194 (Hebrew).

Azaryahu, M. 2005. ‘The Beach at the End of the World. Eilat in Israeli Popular Culture’, Social and Cultural Geography 6(1), 117-134.

Azaryahu, M. 2005. ‘Mt. Herzl: Historical Outline of the National Cemetery in Jerusalem’, Ofakim Be’geografia 64-65, 369-383 (Hebrew). [PDF]

Azaryahu, M. 2005. ‘Security, Landscape and Political Communication: the Case of Golani Junction’, U. Lebel (ed.), Security and Communication: Dynamic Relations, Beer Sheva: Ben-Gurion University Press, 387-401 (Hebrew).

Azaryahu, M. & Golan A. 2004. ‘Zionist Homelandscapes (and their Constitution) in Israeli Geography’, Social and Cultural Geography 5(3), 497-515. [PDF]

Azaryahu, M. 2004. ‘The Israeli Pavilion at the World’s Fair, Brussels 1958’, Israel. A Journal for the Study of Zionism and the State of Israel. History, Culture, Society 6, 1-30 (Hebrew) [PDF]

Azaryahu, M. & Golan A. 2004. ‘Noise and the Formation of Urban Space: Tel Aviv 1926-1940’, Iyunim Bitkumat Israel. Studies in Zionism, the Yishuv and the State of Israel 14, 73-96 (Hebrew).

Azaryahu, M. 2004. ‘Naming the Streets of (Arab) Jerusalem during the British Mandate Period 1920-1948’. Ofakim Be’geografia 60-61, 299-308.  [PDF]

Azaryahu, M. 2004. ‘Homelandscapes. Zionist Landscapes of a Hebrew Homeland: Three Cases’, in R. Robin & B. Strath, eds., Homelands: Poetic Power and the Politics of Space. Bruxelles: P.I.E.- Peter Lang, 149-164.

Azaryahu, M. 2003. ‘RePlacing Memory. The ReOrientation of Buchenwald’, Cultural Geographies 10(1), 1-20.

Azaryahu, M. 2003. ‘Bab-el-Wad: The Remains of the Armored Vehicles’, Cathedra 106, 119-138 (Hebrew). [PDF]

Azaryahu, M. 2003. ‘The Tale of Two Monuments’, in J. Baumel and T. Cohen (eds.), Gender, Place and Memory in the Modern Jewish Experience London and Portland: Or, Vallentine and Mitchell, 252-268.

Azaryahu, M. & Kook B. 2002. ‘Mapping the Nation. Street Names and Arab-Palestinian Identity: Three Case Studies’, Nations and Nationalism 8(2), 195-213 (co-author: B. Kook-Doron).

Azaryahu, M. 2002. ‘(Re)Locating Redemption. Jerusalem: The Wall, Two Mountains, a Hill and the Narrative Construction of the Third Temple’, Modern Jewish Studies 1(1), 22-35.

Azaryahu, M. 2002. ‘Change and Continuity. Jewish Tradition and the Formation of Sovereignty Rites in Israel’, in Z. Zameret and M. Bar-On, eds., Israel: The First Decade, Jerusalem: Yad Ben Zvi, 272-293 (Hebrew).

Azaryahu, M. & Golan A. 2001. ‘(Re)Naming the Landscape. The Formation of the Hebrew Map of Israel, 1949-1960’, Journal of Historical Geography 27(2), 178-195.

Azaryahu, M. 2001. ‘Water Towers. A Study in the Cultural Geography of Zionist Mythology’, Cultural Geographies 8(3), 317-339.

Azaryahu, M. 2001. “Nature Gave us the Sea”: A Cultural History of Tel Aviv’s Beach, 1918-1948′, Ofakim Be’Geographia  53, 95-112 (Hebrew).      

Azaryahu, M. 2001. ‘Hebrew and Hebraization. Aspects of Molding Cultural Identity’, Jewish Studies 40, 77-88 (Hebrew).

Azaryahu, M. 2001. ‘The Independence Day Parades: The first decade’, in: B. Donner (ed.), Pomp and Circumstance, Tel Aviv: The Land of Israel Museum, 63-71 (Hebrew).

Azaryahu, M. 2000. ‘Israeli Securityscapes’, in John R. Gold and G. Revill, (eds.), Landscapes of Defence, Harlow, England: Prentice Hall, 102-113.

Azaryahu, M. 2000. ‘Commissioned Memory. The Politics of Commemoration: Two Contemporary German Cases’, Tel Aviv Jahrbuch für deutsche Geschichte 28, 341-366.

Azaryahu, M. 2000. ‘McIsrael. Notes on the Americanization of Israel’, Israel Studies 5(1), 41-64. [PDF]

Azaryahu, M. 1999.  ‘It is no Fairy Tale. Israel at 50’, Political Geography 18(2), 131-147.

Azaryahu, M. & Kellerman A. 1999. ‘Symbolic Places. A Study in the Geography of Zionist Mythology’, Transactions of British Geographers 24(1), 109-123.

Azaryahu, M. 1999. ‘Golani or McDonald’s Junction? A Case of a Contested Place in Israel’, The Professional Geographer, 51(4), 481-492.

Azaryahu, M. 1999. ‘Politicki simboli u svakidasnjici. Polisistemski pristup istrazivanju’, Etnoloska Tribina 22 (Vol. 29), 255-273.  [PDF]

Azaryahu, M. 1999. ‘On the Map’, in D. Tartakover, ed. A Trip Across the Country. Games from Mr. Barlevy’s Store, Tel Aviv: Museum of the Land of Israel, 43-45. (Hebrew).

Azaryahu, M. 1999. ‘The Independence Day Military Parade. Political History of a Patriotic Ritual’, in E. Lomsky-Feder, & E. Ben-Ari (eds.), The Military and Militarism in Israeli Society, Albany: SUNY, 89-116.

Azaryahu, M. 1999. ‘On Currency Notes’, in B. Donner (ed.), Hebrew Graphics. Shamir Brothers Studio, Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 60-65 (Hebrew).

Azaryahu, M. 1997. ‘German Reunification and the Politics of Street Names. The Case of East Berlin’, Political Geography 16(6), 479-493.

Azaryahu, M. 1997. ‘The Mythic Geography of 11th. of Adar: from Tel Hai to Birya and Eilat’, Ofakim Be’georafia 46-47, 9-20 (Hebrew).

Azaryahu, M. 1997. ‘Zurück zur Vergangenheit? Die Strassennamen Ost-Berlins 1990-1994‘ in W. Speitkamp (ed.), Denkmalsturz. Zur Konfliktgeschichte politischer Symbolik Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 137-154.

Azaryahu, M. & Bar-Gal Y. 1997. ‘Jewish Tradition and National Cemeteries: Two Israeli Cases’, in Harold Brodsky, ed., Land and Community. Geography in Jewish Studies, University Press of Maryland, 105-126.

Azaryahu, M. 1996. ‘Water Towers in the Landscape of Memory: Negba, Yad Mordechai and Be’erot Yitzhak’, Cathedra 79, 160-173 (Hebrew). [PDF]

Azaryahu, M. 1996. ‘The Power of Commemorative Street Names’. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 14, 311-330.

Azaryahu, M. 1996. ‘The spontaneous formation of memorial space. The Case of Kikar Rabin, Tel Aviv’, Area 28, 501-513.

Azaryahu, M. 1996. ‘Mount Herzl: The Creation of Israel’s National Cemetery’, Israel Studies 1(2), 46-74.  [PDF]

Azaryahu, M. 1996. ‘The Topography of National Remembrance. Two Israeli Cases’, in: Y. Gradus & G. Lipshitz, (eds.), The Mosaic of Israeli Geography, Beer Sheva: Ben Gurion University of the Negev Press, 253-260.

Azaryahu, M. 1995. ‘The Monument of the 54th. Battalion of the Givati Brigade in Huleikat. A Study in the Commemoration of Israel’s War of Independence’, Iyunim Bitkumat Israel. 5, 336-363 (Hebrew). [PDF]

Azaryahu, M. 1994. ‘The Mountain, the Wall and the Narrative of the Third Temple’, Compar(a)ison 2, 109-126.

Azaryahu, M. 1994. ’Renaming Streets in East Berlin 1945-1991’, in S. Volkov (ed.), ‘From Division to Unification: Germany 1945-1990’, Tel-Aviv: Am-Oved, 127-146 (Hebrew).

Azaryahu, M. 1993. ‘From Remains to Relics: Authentic Monuments in the Israeli Landscape’, History & Memory 5(2), 82-103.  [PDF]

Azaryahu, M. 1993. ‘Tale of Two Cities. The Commemoration of Israel’s War of Independence in Tel Aviv and Haifa. A Study in the Construction of Israeli Memory’, Cathedra 68, 98-125 (Hebrew). [PDF]

Azaryahu, M. 1993. “Monuments of Heroic Sacrifice in Jerusalem”, in E. Shiller Ariel 91-92, 127-132 (Hebrew).

Azaryahu, M. 1992. ‘Topographie der Erinnerung. Die Israelische Denkmäler der Unabhängigkeitskrieg‘, Kritische Berichte 20(3), 90-95.

Azaryahu, M. 1992. ‘The Purge of Bismarck and Saladin. The Renaming of Streets in Haifa and East Berlin. A Comparative Study in Culture-Planning’, Poetics Today 13(2), 351-367.

Azaryahu, M. 1992. ‘War Memorials and the Commemoration of the Israeli War of Independence 1948-1956’, Studies in Zionism 13(1), 57-77.

Azaryahu, M. 1991. ‘Die Umbenennung der Vergangenheit oder die Politik der Städtischen Architexture. Ost-Berlin 1990-1991‘. Zeitschrift für Volkskunde 88(1), 16-29.

Azaryahu, M. 1990. ‘Renaming the Past. Changes in “City-Text” in Germany and Austria 1945-1947’, History & Memory 2(2), 32-53.  [PDF]

Azaryahu, M. 1988. ‘What is to be Remembered: The Struggle over Street Names, Berlin 1921-1930’, Tel Aviver Jahrbuch für deutsche Geschichte 17, 241-258.  [PDF]

Azaryahu, M. 1986. ‘Street Names and Political Identity: The Case of East Berlin’, Journal of Contemporary History 21, 581-604.