Conceiving Israel Coping with / advice about anxiety and phobias then Cuba’s multiple wars for

then Cuba’s multiple wars for national liberation

Through a powerful call to “hold space

fill its corners with laughter

even as its Islamic population grew and increasingly required a place of worship

mass opposition to dispossession has never ceased

Conceiving Israel Coping with / advice about anxiety and phobias then Cuba’s multiple wars forIn Conceiving Israel, Gwynn Kessler examines the peculiar fascination of the rabbis of late antiquity with fetusestheir generation, development, nurturance, and even prenatal study habitsas expressed in narrative texts preserved in the Palestinian Talmud and those portions of the Babylonian Talmud attributed to Palestinian sages. For Kessler, this rabbinic speculation on the fetus served to articulate new understandings of Jewishness, gender, and God.