From the Editors ~ Matti Bunzl and Rachel Havrelock


From the President ~ Jonathan D. Sarna


From the Executive Director ~ Rona Sheramy


Portrait of Baruch Spinoza The Land vs. the land ~ Julie E. Cooper


Assyrian relief of first Israelites going into exile 733 BCE The Land Within and Without: The Cycle of Israel’s Life ~ Nili Wazana


Sabbath boundary marker Architecture, Landscape, and Rabbinic Place-Making ~ Gil Klein


(Home)land: Reflections on Andalusi Jewish Attachment to Place ~ Ross Brann


Frankfurt Ballino-Zalti 1567 Jews and the Land in Early Modern Germany: Responses to Crisis and Natural Disaster ~ Dean Bell


Semyon Fridlyand, “Children of Birobidzhan,” 1934 A Land Flowing with Milk and Honey: Birobidzhan and Jewish National Cosmopolitanism ~ David Shneer


Ute Chief Ouray and Otto Mears between 1860 and 1880 Jews and the Geography of Contest in the American Frontier West ~ David S. Koffman


Lower East Side Landings ~ Jonathan Boyarin and Elissa Sampson


Shrine of R. Amram Ben Diwan (Asjen, Morocco) Hallowed Ground: National and Otherwise ~ Oren Kosansky


Gennadij Plavinski with a Ben-Yehuda flyer, Glubokoe, 2013. Ben-Yehudah—the Belorussian Hero: Jewish Heritage and the New Belorussian National Identity Project ~ Magdalena Waligórska


Neue Nachbarn A Tree Grows in Berlin ~ Leslie Morris


Yosef Hayim Brenner Land: Holy Land, Homeland, Holy Land ~ Anita Shapira


Rav Kook on his way to visiting the White House, April 15, 1924. Library of Congress. God on Earth: Rav Kook, 'Erez Yisra'el, and the Re-Enchantment of Political Zionism ~ Yehudah Mirsky


Photo credit: Women in Green. Yedi'at Ha-'arez Reclaimed: Classic Zionist Ideology in the Advance of West Bank Settlement ~ Eric Fleisch


Hiker-fighters of the Palmach on a masa, or long-distance trek, across the Judean Desert in the 1940s. Courtesy of the Palmach Photo Gallery. Hiking in Israel: Why Are These Trails Different? ~ Shay Rabineau


LandWork: Israel, Nakba, Memory ~ Rebecca Stein


Cover of Jerusalem Ottolenghi: A Love Story ~ Ari Ariel


Emily Jacir: The Place Beyond ~ Carol Zemel


Places vs. Spaces for Palestinians and Jews ~ Ian Lustick


Artwork Featured in The Land Issue ~ Daniel Bauer