Figuring Jerusalem: Politics and Poetics in the Sacred Center

Contents
List of Figures
Note on Hebrew Transliteration
Prologue “Why Jerusalem?” The Politics of Poetry
Introduction “This House, which is called by My Name”
Part I. Literary Archaeologies
	1. “Yes, you did laugh!”: The Secret of the Akeda
	2. “You are as majestic as Jerusalem”: The Song and the City
	3. “Apples of gold in ornaments of silver”: Maimonides’s Guide to the Poetic Imagination
Part II. Agnon’s Dilemma
	4. “What may this be likened to?”: Agnon and the Poetics of Space
	5. “Every day I have regretted not having stood in the breach”: Agnon in Jerusalem
Part III. Amichai in the Breach
	6. “He comes out of a swimming pool or the sea... and he laughs and blesses”: Yehuda Amichai, Poet of the Sacred Quotidian
	7. “Visit my tears and the east wind, which is the true Western Wall”: Amichai in Jerusalem
Coda
Acknowledgments: Ancient Debts and Ongoing Gratitude
Notes
Bibliography
Index of Names
Index of Biblical Citations