{"id":46,"date":"2025-05-21T07:43:46","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T07:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/azaryahu.haifa.ac.il\/?page_id=46"},"modified":"2026-09-08T05:07:27","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T05:07:27","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/azaryahu.haifa.ac.il\/?page_id=46","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"46\" class=\"elementor elementor-46\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6a4d8f8 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"6a4d8f8\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-240a26a elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"240a26a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%; color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\">public commemoration<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%; color: #0070c0; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\">Israel<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 107%; color: #bf4e14; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\">street names<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 107%; color: #45b0e1; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themetint: 153; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\">Tel Aviv Berlin<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; color: #e97132; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\"> spatial narratives<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 107%; color: #501549; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\">politics of<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 107%; color: #501549; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\">naming<\/span><\/p><p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%; color: #156082; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\">mythography<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%; color: #7030a0; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\">Zionism<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%; color: #80340d; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 128; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\">name making <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\">Herzl<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%; color: #275317; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\">military cemetery <\/span><span style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u05b2<\/span><\/span><span style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u05b2<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; color: #e97132; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\">everlasting name<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%; color: #a02b93; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\">critical toponymy<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 107%; color: #47d459; mso-themecolor: accent3; mso-themetint: 153; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\">placemaking<\/span><\/p><p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; color: #3a7c22; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\">memorial landscape <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%; color: #c00000; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\">War of Independence<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; color: #156082; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\">cultural geography<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%; color: #00b050; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\">spatial history<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; color: #171717; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\">Independence Day<\/span><\/p><p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\"> <span style=\"color: #e97132; mso-themecolor: accent2;\">military parades <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; color: gray; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\">narrative museums<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; color: #a02b93; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\">cultural production<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%; color: #156082; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\">heritage<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\">immortality<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; color: #196b24; mso-themecolor: accent3; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\">national identity<\/span><\/p><p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\">anniversaries<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\">city-text \u05deory<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; color: #e97132; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\">Yom Hazikaron <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%; color: #f1a983; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 153; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\">Haifa<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 107%; color: #501549; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\">onymic commemoration<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; color: #00b050; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\">street signs<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%; color: #0f4761; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\">water towers<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%; color: #adadad; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\">invisibility<\/span><\/p><p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; color: #0f4761; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\">semiotic infrastructures <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; color: #60caf3; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 153; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\">Har Herzl<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; color: #404040; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\">Asher Hiram<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%; color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\">Jerusalem<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; color: #00b050; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\">commemorative architecture <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%; color: #77206d; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 191; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\">national narrative<\/span><\/p><p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; color: #c00000; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\">everyday life <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%; color: #e97132; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\">mythic city<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\"> <span style=\"color: #4c94d8; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themetint: 128;\">poetics of commemoration<\/span> Spatial <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\">storytelling <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; color: #4ea72e; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\">Lloyd Triestino <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; color: #124f1a; mso-themecolor: accent3; mso-themeshade: 191; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\">Sha&#8217;ar Ha&#8217;gay<\/span><\/p><p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%; color: #7f7f7f; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 128; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\">nation building<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 24.0pt; line-height: 107%; color: #0070c0; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\">renaming<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%; color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\">mythosphere<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 24.0pt; line-height: 107%; color: #c00000; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\">war memorials<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%; color: #c00000; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\">Negba<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\"> Fame<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-32b161a e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"32b161a\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f8508f2 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"f8508f2\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d5c1b58 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"d5c1b58\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Research<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-67cc353 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"67cc353\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Azaryahu, M. 2026. \u2018Local Commemoration: Streets named after Ze\u2019ev Jabotinsky, Yose Kluasner and Ya\u2019acov Cohen\u2019, in Ofira Gruweis Kovalsky (ed.) <em>Intellectuals, Culture and Politics in the Revisionist Movement<\/em>, Haifa: The Herzl Institute for the Study of Zionism, 26-49.<\/p><p>Azaryahu, M. 2024. \u2019Invisible Cities and their name(s): insights into the (in)correctness of names. <em>Miscellanea Geographica<\/em> 28(4), DOI: 10.2478\/mgrsd-2023-0047. <a href=\"http:\/\/azaryahu.haifa.ac.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Azaryahu-Invisible-Cities-and-their-names.pdf\">[PDF]<\/a><\/p><p>Azaryahu, M.\u00a0 &amp; Foote, K. 2024. \u2019Homecoming: Returning to Italo Calvino\u2019s Invisible Cities after 50 years\u2019. <em>Miscellanea Geographica<\/em> 28(4), 1-3. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/azaryahu.haifa.ac.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Azaryahu-Homecoming-Returning-to-Italo-Calvinos-Invisible-Cities-.pdf\">[PDF]<\/a><\/p><p>Azaryahu, M. 2021. \u2019Connected Memories: The Founders\u2019 Garden and Beit Yad LeBanim, Hadera\u2019, in N. Lissovsky (ed.) <em>Perspectives on the Work of Landscape Architect Zvi Dekel<\/em>, Tel Aviv: Bavel, 84-99 (Hebrew).<\/p><p>Azaryahu, M. 2021. \u2019Street Naming and Shoah Remembrance: The Case of Tel Aviv-Yafo\u2019, in M. Azaryahu, U. Gehring, F. Meyer, J. Picard and C. Sp\u00e4ti (eds.) <em>Between Commemoration and Amnesia. Forms of Holocaust Remembrance in Swiss and Transnational Perspectives<\/em>, K\u00f6ln-Weimar-Wien: b\u00f6hlau, 149-160.<\/p><p>Azaryahu, M. 2020. Name-Making as Place-Making\u2019, In L. Caiazzo, R. Coates and M. Azaryahu (eds.), <em>Naming, Identity and Tourism<\/em>. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.<\/p><p>Azaryahu, M. 2019. King George or King David? On Renaming the Colonial Past in Israel\u2019. <em>Zeitgeschichte<\/em> 46(1), 15-38.<\/p><p>Azaryahu, M. 2019. Sha\u2019ar Zion: Opening(s) of the Port of Tel Aviv\u2019. In A. Tanikowski (ed.), <em>Gdynia-Tel Awiw<\/em>, Warsaw: Polin: Museum of the History of Polish Jews &#8211; Gdynia City Museum, 107-115.<\/p><p>Azaryahu, M. 2017. &#8216;Amongst the names: Gan-Habanim, Tel Aviv-Yafo&#8217;, in N. Lissovsky and T. Alon-Mozes (eds.), <em>Gideon Sarig:<\/em> <em>Gardens for People<\/em>, Israel 2017, 122-139 (Hebrew).<\/p><p>Azaryahu, M. 2017. &#8220;Revisiting East Berlin and Haifa: a Comparative Perspective on Renaming the Past&#8221; in Rose-Redwood, R., D. Alderman, and M, Azaryahu (eds.) <em>The Political Life of Urban Streetscapes: Naming, Politics and Place<\/em>, London and New York: Routledge, 56-73.<\/p><p>Troen I, Azaryahu, M. &amp; Golan, A. 2017. &#8216;Israel: Geography, Demography, and Economy&#8217;, in: S. Ilan Troen and Rachel Fish (eds.) <em>Essential Israel: Essays for the 21st Century<\/em>, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 12-39.<\/p><p>Azaryahu, M. 2017. &#8216;Herzl in Tel Aviv: A Commemorative Journey&#8217;, in K. J. Kuhn, K. Sontag and W. Leimgruber (eds.) <em>Lebenskunst: Erkundungen zu Biographie, Lebenswelt und Erinnerung<\/em>, K\u00f6ln-Weimar-Wien: B\u00f6hlau, 300-310.<\/p><p>Azaryahu, M.\u00a0 2017. &#8216;Joppa&#8217;. <em>Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception<\/em>, De Gruyter.<\/p><p>Azaryahu, M.\u00a0 2017. &#8216;Toponymy&#8217;. The International <em>Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment, and Technology<\/em>, Wiley.<\/p><p>Azaryahu, M. 2016. &#8216;Wrecks to relics: battle remains and the formation of a battlescape, Sha&#8217;ar Ha&#8217;Gai, Israel&#8217;, in D. Drozdzewski, S. De Nardi and E. Waterton (eds.) <em>Memory, Place and Identity: Commemoration and Remembrance of War and Conflict<\/em>, London and New York: Routledge, 74-92.\u00a0<\/p><p>Azaryahu, M.\u00a0 &amp; Reiter Y. 2015. &#8216;The Geopolitics of Internment: An Inquiry into the Burial of Muhammad Ali in Jerusalem, 1931&#8217;. <em>Israel Studies<\/em> 20(1), 31-56. <a href=\"http:\/\/azaryahu.haifa.ac.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Azaryahu-burial-of-Muhammad-Ali.pdf\">[PDF]<\/a><\/p><p>Azaryahu, M.\u00a0 &amp; Berkovsky, A. 2014. &#8216;On Flags&#8217;, in S. Shealtiel (ed.), <em>Raise the Flag! Flags of Hashomer Hazair. One Hundred Years of the Movement<\/em>, Givat Haviva: Yad Ya&#8217;ari, 12-27.<\/p><p>Azaryahu, M. 2013. &#8216;Erinnerungsverpflichtung und Erinnerungsgewebe. <em>Gefallenen-gedenken in Israel&#8217;, in M. Hettling and J. Echternkamp (eds.) Gefallenengedenken im gobalen Vergleich<\/em>, Munich: Oldenburg, 253-280.<\/p><p>Azaryahu, M. 2013. &#8216;The Herzliya Gymansium Building; Between Nostalgia and Memory&#8217;, in G. Raz, (ed.) <em>Gymansium Days: The Herzliya Hebrew Gymansium, 1905-1959<\/em>, Tel Aviv: The Eretz Israel Museum\/the Hebrew Gymansium &#8220;Herzliya&#8221;, 71-82 (Hebrew).<\/p><p>Azaryahu, M. 2013. &#8216;Commemorative Renaming of Streets: The Case of East Berlin 1945-1951&#8217;, <em>Ofakim Be&#8217;geografia<\/em> 83, 22-39 (Hebrew).<\/p><p>Azaryahu, M. 2013. &#8216;Memory in the Landscape: Invisible Memorials \u2013 Three Case-Studies&#8217;, <em>Cathedra<\/em> 150, 211-238 (Hebrew). <a href=\"http:\/\/azaryahu.haifa.ac.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Azaryahu-Cathedra-150.pdf\">[PDF]<\/a><\/p><p>Azaryahu, M. 2012. &#8216;Rabin&#8217;s Road: The Politics of Toponymic Commemoration of Yitzhak Rabin in Israel&#8217;. <em>Political Geography<\/em> 31(2), 73-82.<\/p><p>Azaryahu, M. 2012. &#8216;Renaming the Past in post-Nazi Germany: Insights into the politics of street naming in Mannheim and Potsdam&#8217;. <em>Cultural Geographies<\/em> 19(3), 383-398.<\/p><p>Azaryahu, M. &amp; Golan, A. 2012. &#8216;Photography, Memory and Ethnic Cleansing: The Fate of the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem, 1948\u2014John Phillips&#8217;s Pictorial Record&#8217;, <em>Israel Studies<\/em> 17(2), 62-76. <a href=\"http:\/\/azaryahu.haifa.ac.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Azaryahu-John-Phillips-published-article.pdf\">[PDF]<\/a><\/p><p>Azaryahu, M. 2012. &#8216;Hebrew, Arabic, English: The Politics of Multilingual Street Signs in Israeli Cities&#8217;, <em>Social and Cultural Geography<\/em> 13(5), 461-480.<\/p><p>Azaryahu, M. 2011. &#8216;Public Controversy and Commemorative Failure: Tel Aviv&#8217;s Monument to the Holocaust and National Revival&#8217;, <em>Israel Studies<\/em> 16(1), 129-148. [PDF]<\/p><p>Azaryahu, M. 2011. &#8216;The Critical Turn and Beyond: The Case of Commemorative Street Naming&#8217;, <em>ACME<\/em> (Critical Geographies) 10(1), 28-33. <a href=\"http:\/\/azaryahu.haifa.ac.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Azaryahu-Critical-Turn-and-Beyond.pdf\">[PDF]<\/a><\/p><p>Azaryahu, M. 2011. &#8216;The Politics of Commemorative Street Renaming: Berlin 1945-1948&#8217;, <em>Journal of Historical Geography<\/em> 37(4), 483-492.<\/p><p>Rose-Redwood, R., Alderman, D. H. &amp; Azaryahu, M. 2010. &#8216;Geographies of toponymic inscriptions: new directions in critical place-names studies&#8217;, <em>Progress in Human Geography<\/em> 30(4), 468-486.<\/p><p>Azaryahu, M. 2009. \u2018\u2019One of the World\u2019s Coolest Cities\u201d:\u00a0 Tel Aviv at 100\u2019, <em>Israel Studies<\/em> 14(3), vii-xii. <a href=\"http:\/\/azaryahu.haifa.ac.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Azaryahu-Tel-Aviv-at-100-1.pdf\">[PDF]<\/a><\/p><p>Azaryahu, M. 2009. &#8216;Tel Aviv Birthdays: Anniversary Celebrations of the First Hebrew City 1929-1959&#8217;, <em>Israel Studies<\/em> 14(3), 1-20. <a href=\"http:\/\/azaryahu.haifa.ac.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Azaryahu-Tel-Aviv-birthdays-1.pdf\">[PDF]<\/a><\/p><p>Azaryahu, M. 2009. Rabin Road. Toponymic Commemorations of Yitzhak Rabin in the Israeli Landscape 1995-2005\u2019, in I. Rosenson and O. Israeli (eds.), <em>Living in Spirit: Studies in Education and Security in Honor of Haim Israeli<\/em>, Tel Aviv: Ministry of Defense Press (Hebrew), 213-231.<\/p><p>Azaryahu, M. 2009. Naming the Past: Commemorative Street Names\u2019, in L. Berg and J. Vuolteenaho (eds.) <em>Critical Toponymies: Contested Politics of Place Naming<\/em>, Farnham: Ashgate, 53-70.<\/p><p>Azaryahu, M. 2009. &#8216;Street Names and Iconography&#8217;. <em>Elsevier\u2019s International Encyclopedia of Human Geography<\/em>.<\/p><p>Foote, K. &amp; Azaryahu, M. 2009. &#8216;Semiotics&#8217;. <em>Elsevier\u2019s International Encyclopedia of Human Geography.<\/em><\/p><p>Foote E. &amp; Azaryahu, M.\u00a0 2009. &#8216;Sense of Place&#8217;. <em>Elsevier\u2019s International Encyclopedia of Human Geography.<\/em><\/p><p>Azaryahu, M. 2008. \u2018Tel Aviv: Center, Periphery and the Cultural Geographies of an Aspiring Metropolis\u2019. <em>Social and Cultural Geography<\/em> 9(3), 303-318.<\/p><p>Azaryahu, M. &amp; Foote K. 2008. \u2019Historical Space as Narrative Medium: On the Configuration of Spatial Narratives of Time at Historical Sites\u2019 <em>GeoJournal<\/em> 73(3), 179-194. <a href=\"http:\/\/azaryahu.haifa.ac.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Azaryahu-spatial-narrative-GeoJ-3.pdf\">[PDF]<\/a><\/p><p>Rose-Redwood, R., Alderman, D. H. &amp; Azaryahu, M. 2008. &#8216;Collective Memory and the Politics of Urban Space: an introduction&#8217;, <em>GeoJournal<\/em> 73(3), 161-164. <a href=\"http:\/\/azaryahu.haifa.ac.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Azaryahu-collective-memory-and-politics-of-urban-space.pdf\">[PDF]<\/a><\/p><p>Azaryahu, M. 2008. \u2019The Formation of the Hebrew Sea in Pre-State Israel\u2019, <em>Modern Jewish Studies<\/em> 7(3), 251-267.<\/p><p>Azaryahu, M. 2008. \u2018State vs. Nation: Notes on Post-Nationalism\u2019, in N. Rothenberg and E. Schweid (eds.) <em>Studies on Jewish People, Identity and Nationality<\/em>. Jerusalem: Van Leer Institute and Ha\u2019Kibbutz Ha\u2019Meuchad, 33-44 (Hebrew).<\/p><p>Azaryahu, M. 2008. Local Commemoration. Names for the streets of Be&#8217;er Sheva: 1973-1998\u2019, in Y. Gradus and E. Meir-Glitzenstein (eds.) <em>Be&#8217;er Sheva: Metropolis in the Making<\/em>, Beer Sheva: Ben-Gurion University Press, 197-216 (Hebrew).<\/p><p>Azaryahu, M. &amp; Golan A. 2007. \u2019Contested Beachscapes: Planning and debating Tel Aviv&#8217;s Seashore in the 1930s,\u2019 <em>Urban History<\/em> 34(2), 278-295 (co-author: A. Golan).<\/p><p>Foote, K. &amp; Azaryahu, M. 2007. \u2019Toward a Geography of Memory: Geographical Contribution to the Study of Commemoration and Memory,\u2019 <em>Journal of Political and Military Sociology<\/em> 35(1), 125-144. <a href=\"http:\/\/azaryahu.haifa.ac.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Azaryahu-Toward-a-Geography-of-Memory-1.pdf\">[PDF]<\/a><\/p><p>Azaryahu, M. 2007. &#8216;Tel Aviv \u2013 between center and periphery&#8217;, in O. Heilbronner and M. Levin (eds.) <em>Between Sderot and Sderot Rotschild: Center and Periphery in Israel<\/em>. Tel Aviv: Resling, 167-194 (Hebrew).<\/p><p>Azaryahu, M. 2005. \u2018The Beach at the End of the World. Eilat in Israeli Popular Culture\u2019, <em>Social and Cultural Geography<\/em> 6(1), 117-134.<\/p><p>Azaryahu, M. 2005. &#8216;Mt. Herzl: Historical Outline of the National Cemetery in Jerusalem&#8217;, <em>Ofakim Be&#8217;geografia<\/em> 64-65, 369-383 (Hebrew).<a href=\"http:\/\/azaryahu.haifa.ac.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Azaryahu-har-herzl-ofakim.pdf\"> [PDF]<\/a><\/p><p>Azaryahu, M. 2005. \u2018Security, Landscape and Political Communication: the Case of Golani Junction\u2019, U. Lebel (ed.) <em>Security and Communication: Dynamic Relations<\/em>, Beer Sheva: Ben-Gurion University Press, 387-401 (Hebrew).<\/p><p>Azaryahu, M. &amp; Golan A. 2004. \u2018Zionist Homelandscapes (and their Constitution) in Israeli Geography\u2019, <em>Social and Cultural Geography<\/em> 5(3), 497-515. <a href=\"http:\/\/azaryahu.haifa.ac.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Azaryahu-Homelandscapes.pdf\">[PDF]<\/a><\/p><p>Azaryahu, M. 2004. &#8216;The Israeli Pavilion at the World&#8217;s Fair, Brussels 1958&#8217;, Israel. A Journal for the Study of Zionism and the State of Israel. <em>History, Culture, Society<\/em> 6, 1-30 (Hebrew) <a href=\"http:\/\/azaryahu.haifa.ac.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Azaryahu-brussels-1958.pdf\">[PDF]<\/a><\/p><p>Azaryahu, M. &amp; Golan A. 2004. &#8216;Noise and the Formation of Urban Space: Tel Aviv 1926-1940&#8217;, <em>Iyunim Bitkumat<\/em> <em>Israel<\/em>\u00a014, 73-96 (Hebrew).<\/p><p>Azaryahu, M. 2004. \u2018Naming the Streets of (Arab) Jerusalem during the British Mandate Period 1920-1948\u2019. <em>Ofakim Be&#8217;geografia<\/em> 60-61, 299-308. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/azaryahu.haifa.ac.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Azaryahu-NamingStreetsArab-2004.pdf\">[PDF]<\/a><\/p><p>Azaryahu, M. 2004. &#8216;Homelandscapes. Zionist Landscapes of a Hebrew Homeland: Three Cases&#8217;, in R. Robin &amp; B. Strath, (eds.) <em>Homelands: Poetic Power and the Politics of Space,<\/em>\u00a0Bruxelles: P.I.E.- Peter Lang, 149-164.<\/p><p>Azaryahu, M. 2003. \u2018RePlacing Memory. The ReOrientation of Buchenwald\u2019, <em>Cultural Geographies<\/em> 10(1), 1-20.<\/p><p>Azaryahu, M. 2003. &#8216;Bab-el-Wad: The Remains of the Armored Vehicles&#8217;, <em>Cathedra<\/em> 106, 119-138 (Hebrew). <a href=\"http:\/\/azaryahu.haifa.ac.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Azaryahu-Cathedra-106-meshurianim.pdf\">[PDF]<\/a><\/p><p>Azaryahu, M. 2003. \u2018The Tale of Two Monuments\u2019, in J. Baumel and T. Cohen (eds.) <em>Gender, Place and Memory in the Modern Jewish Experience,<\/em> London and Portland: Or, Vallentine and Mitchell, 252-268.<\/p><p>Azaryahu, M. &amp; Kook B. 2002. \u2018Mapping the Nation. Street Names and Arab-Palestinian Identity: Three Case Studies\u2019, <em>Nations and Nationalism<\/em> 8(2), 195-213 (co-author: B. Kook-Doron).<\/p><p>Azaryahu, M. 2002. \u2018(Re)Locating Redemption. Jerusalem: The Wall, Two Mountains, a Hill and the Narrative Construction of the Third Temple\u2019, <em>Modern Jewish Studies<\/em> 1(1), 22-35.<\/p><p>Azaryahu, M. 2002. \u2018Change and Continuity. Jewish Tradition and the Formation of Sovereignty Rites in Israel\u2019, in Z. Zameret and M. Bar-On, (eds.) <em>Israel: The First Decade<\/em>, Jerusalem: Yad Ben Zvi, 272-293 (Hebrew).<\/p><p>Azaryahu, M. &amp; Golan A. 2001. \u2018(Re)Naming the Landscape. The Formation of the Hebrew Map of Israel, 1949-1960\u2019, <em>Journal of Historical Geography<\/em> 27(2), 178-195.<\/p><p>Azaryahu, M. 2001. \u2018Water Towers. A Study in the Cultural Geography of Zionist Mythology\u2019, <em>Cultural Geographies<\/em> 8(3), 317-339.<\/p><p>Azaryahu, M. 2001. &#8220;Nature Gave us the Sea&#8221;: A Cultural History of Tel Aviv\u2019s Beach, 1918-1948&#8242;, <em>Ofakim Be&#8217;Geographia<\/em>\u00a0 53, 95-112 (Hebrew).\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p><p>Azaryahu, M. 2001. &#8216;Hebrew and Hebraization. Aspects of Molding Cultural Identity&#8217;, <em>Jewish Studies<\/em> 40, 77-88 (Hebrew).<\/p><p>Azaryahu, M. 2001. &#8216;The Independence Day Parades: The first decade&#8217;, in: B. Donner (ed.) <em>Pomp and Circumstance<\/em>, Tel Aviv: The Land of Israel Museum, 63-71 (Hebrew).<\/p><p>Azaryahu, M. 2000. \u2018Israeli Securityscapes\u2019, in John R. Gold and G. Revill, (eds.) <em>Landscapes of Defence<\/em>, Harlow, England: Prentice Hall, 102-113.<\/p><p>Azaryahu, M. 2000. \u2018Commissioned Memory. The Politics of Commemoration: Two Contemporary German Cases\u2019, <em>Tel Aviv<\/em> <em>Jahrbuch f\u00fcr deutsche Geschichte<\/em> 28, 341-366.<\/p><p>Azaryahu, M. 2000. \u2018McIsrael. Notes on the Americanization of Israel\u2019, <em>Israel Studies<\/em> 5(1), 41-64. <a href=\"http:\/\/azaryahu.haifa.ac.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Azaryahu-McIsrael.pdf\">[PDF]<\/a><\/p><p>Azaryahu, M. 1999.\u00a0 \u2018It is no Fairy Tale. Israel at 50\u2019, <em>Political Geography<\/em> 18(2), 131-147.<\/p><p>Azaryahu, M. &amp; Kellerman A. 1999. \u2018Symbolic Places. A Study in the Geography of Zionist Mythology\u2019, <em>Transactions of British Geographers<\/em> 24(1), 109-123.<\/p><p>Azaryahu, M. 1999. \u2018Golani or McDonald\u2019s Junction? A Case of a Contested Place in Israel\u2019, <em>The Professional Geographer<\/em>, 51(4), 481-492.<\/p><p>Azaryahu, M. 1999. \u2018Politicki simboli u svakidasnjici. Polisistemski pristup istrazivanju\u2019, <em>Etnoloska Tribina<\/em> 22 (Vol. 29), 255-273. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/azaryahu.haifa.ac.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Azaryahu-Politicki-simboli.pdf\">[PDF]<\/a><\/p><p>Azaryahu, M. 1999. \u2018On the Map\u2019, in D. Tartakover, ed. <em>A Trip Across the Country. Games from Mr. Barlevy&#8217;s Store<\/em>, Tel Aviv: Museum of the Land of Israel, 43-45. (Hebrew).<\/p><p>Azaryahu, M. 1999. \u2018The Independence Day Military Parade. Political History of a Patriotic Ritual\u2019, in E. Lomsky-Feder, &amp; E. Ben-Ari (eds.) <em>The Military and Militarism in Israeli Society<\/em>, Albany: SUNY, 89-116.<\/p><p>Azaryahu, M. 1999. \u2018On Currency Notes\u2019, in B. Donner (ed.) <em>Hebrew Graphics. Shamir Brothers Studio<\/em>, Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 60-65 (Hebrew).<\/p><p>Azaryahu, M. 1997. \u2018German Reunification and the Politics of Street Names. The Case of East Berlin\u2019, <em>Political Geography<\/em> 16(6), 479-493.<\/p><p>Azaryahu, M. 1997. \u2018The Mythic Geography of 11th. of Adar: from Tel Hai to Birya and Eilat\u2019, <em>Ofakim Be&#8217;georafia<\/em> 46-47, 9-20 (Hebrew).<\/p><p>Azaryahu, M. 1997. \u2018Zur\u00fcck zur Vergangenheit? Die Strassennamen Ost-Berlins 1990-1994\u2018 in W. Speitkamp (ed.) <em>Denkmalsturz. Zur Konfliktgeschichte politischer Symbolik<\/em> G\u00f6ttingen: Vandenhoeck &amp; Ruprecht, 137-154.<\/p><p>Azaryahu, M. &amp; Bar-Gal Y. 1997. \u2018Jewish Tradition and National Cemeteries: Two Israeli Cases\u2019, in Harold Brodsky, (ed.) <em>Land and Community:\u00a0Geography in Jewish Studies<\/em>, University Press of Maryland, 105-126.<\/p><p>Azaryahu, M. 1996. &#8216;Water Towers in the Landscape of Memory: Negba, Yad Mordechai and Be&#8217;erot Yitzhak&#8217;, <em>Cathedra<\/em> 79, 160-173 (Hebrew). <a href=\"http:\/\/azaryahu.haifa.ac.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Azaryahu-Cathedra-79.pdf\">[PDF]<\/a><\/p><p>Azaryahu, M. 1996. \u2018The Power of Commemorative Street Names\u2019. <em>Environment and Planning D:<\/em> <em>Society and Space<\/em>, 14, 311-330.<\/p><p>Azaryahu, M. 1996. \u2018The spontaneous formation of memorial space. The Case of Kikar Rabin, Tel Aviv\u2019, <em>Area<\/em> 28, 501-513.<\/p><p>Azaryahu, M. 1996. \u2018Mount Herzl: The Creation of Israel&#8217;s National Cemetery\u2019, <em>Israel Studies<\/em> 1(2), 46-74. \u00a0[PDF]<\/p><p>Azaryahu, M. 1996. \u2018The Topography of National Remembrance. Two Israeli Cases\u2019, in: Y. Gradus &amp; G. Lipshitz, (eds.) <em>The Mosaic of Israeli Geography<\/em>, Beer Sheva: Ben Gurion University of the Negev Press, 253-260.<\/p><p>Azaryahu, M. 1995. &#8216;The Monument of the 54th. Battalion of the Givati Brigade in Huleikat. A Study in the Commemoration of Israel\u2019s War of Independence&#8217;, <em>Iyunim Bitkumat Israel<\/em>. 5, 336-363 (Hebrew). <a href=\"http:\/\/azaryahu.haifa.ac.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Azaryahu-Givati-54.pdf\">[PDF]<\/a><\/p><p>Azaryahu, M. 1994. \u2018The Mountain, the Wall and the Narrative of the Third Temple\u2019, <em>Compar(a)ison<\/em> 2, 109-126.<\/p><p>Azaryahu, M. 1994. \u2019Renaming Streets in East Berlin 1945-1991\u2019, in S. Volkov (ed.) <em>\u2018From Division to Unification: Germany 1945-1990\u2019<\/em>, Tel-Aviv: Am-Oved, 127-146 (Hebrew).<\/p><p>Azaryahu, M. 1993. \u2018From Remains to Relics: Authentic Monuments in the Israeli Landscape\u2019, <em>History &amp; Memory<\/em> 5(2), 82-103. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/azaryahu.haifa.ac.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Azaryahu-Authentic-Monuments.pdf\">[PDF]<\/a><\/p><p>Azaryahu, M. 1993. \u2018Tale of Two Cities. The Commemoration of Israel&#8217;s War of Independence in Tel Aviv and Haifa. A Study in the Construction of Israeli Memory\u2019, <em>Cathedra<\/em> 68, 98-125 (Hebrew). <a href=\"http:\/\/azaryahu.haifa.ac.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Azaryahu-Cathedra-68.pdf\">[PDF]<\/a><\/p><p>Azaryahu, M. 1993. &#8220;Monuments of Heroic Sacrifice in Jerusalem&#8221;, in E. Shiller (ed.) <em>Ariel<\/em> 91-92, 127-132 (Hebrew).<\/p><p>Azaryahu, M. 1992. &#8216;Topographie der Erinnerung. Die Israelische Denkm\u00e4ler der Unabh\u00e4ngigkeitskrieg\u2018, <em>Kritische Berichte<\/em> 20(3), 90-95.<\/p><p>Azaryahu, M. 1992. &#8216;The Purge of Bismarck and Saladin. The Renaming of Streets in Haifa and East Berlin. A Comparative Study in Culture-Planning&#8217;, <em>Poetics Today<\/em> 13(2), 351-367.<\/p><p>Azaryahu, M. 1992. \u2018War Memorials and the Commemoration of the Israeli War of Independence 1948-1956\u2019, <em>Studies in Zionism<\/em> 13(1), 57-77.<\/p><p>Azaryahu, M. 1991. \u2018Die Umbenennung der Vergangenheit oder die Politik der St\u00e4dtischen Architexture. Ost-Berlin 1990-1991\u2018. <em>Zeitschrift f\u00fcr Volkskunde<\/em> 88(1), 16-29.<\/p><p>Azaryahu, M. 1990. \u2018Renaming the Past. 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