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<p>This article depicts how a social group—liberal Orthodox Jews—construct their social collective identity through interactions with other Jewish groups in the urban landscape of one particular neighborhood known as <i>Drom Yerushalayim</i> (South Jerusalem). Using evidence from ethnographic fieldwork in Jerusalem and theoretical framing from the fields of urban anthropology and the spatialization of religion, the article demonstrates how these interactions are shaped by spatial dynamics that generate a process of religious place-making in which residents construct the neighborhood as a place that embodies their kind of liberal, pluralistic Jewish religiosity and validate this identity. In the face of the intensification of nonliberal forces within Israel’s Jewish society, the spatialization of identity is ultimately a process in which liberal Orthodox residents of South Jerusalem claim a more significant and influential place within Israel’s Jewish national terrain.</p>

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Spatializing Identity: Liberal Judaism and Religious Place-Making in South Jerusalem

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    2026年4月7日

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  • Ofira Fuchs

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This article depicts how a social group—liberal Orthodox Jews—construct their social collective identity through interactions with other Jewish groups in the urban landscape of one particular neighborhood known as Drom Yerushalayim (South Jerusalem). Using evidence from ethnographic fieldwork in Jerusalem and theoretical framing from the fields of urban anthropology and the spatialization of religion, the article demonstrates how these interactions are shaped by spatial dynamics that generate a process of religious place-making in which residents construct the neighborhood as a place that embodies their kind of liberal, pluralistic Jewish religiosity and validate this identity. In the face of the intensification of nonliberal forces within Israel’s Jewish society, the spatialization of identity is ultimately a process in which liberal Orthodox residents of South Jerusalem claim a more significant and influential place within Israel’s Jewish national terrain.