Faking It

"My master’s thesis will explore the relationship between individual identity formation and cognitive mapping of politicized urban space in order to challenge the official position of the Israeli government that contemporary 'united' Jerusalem has a fixed historical, holy, essential, and eternal importance to both the State of Israel and to all Jewish people. This ethnographic study seeks to better understand how various Jewish residents of Jerusalem experience, negotiate, and embody the physical, symbolic, and ideological spaces of the city and its borders."