(Re)naming the landscape: The formation of the Hebrew map of Israel 1949–1960

An Integrated Approach to Germanic Place Names in the American Midwest

“…These activities intensified over the course of the political and later military conflict, which silenced public German culture in the United States for several decades. Patriotic efforts, however, did not take universal effect, as names were only changed temporarily (e.g., New Germany, Minnesota), partly (e.g., Hamberg, North Dakota), or not at all (e.g., Bismarck, Missouri), indicating specific contexts of power, ideology, and cultural maintenance (Yeoh 1996;Azaryahu and Golan 2001). They involve various social groups and (inter)relations on the vernacular or official level that foster, avoid, or reverse (re)naming efforts "prompting us to consider the multiple layers and axes of identity and contestation at work in place naming" (Rose-Redwood, Alderman, and Azaryahu 2009, 12).…”

What's in a Name? Place Branding and Toponymic Commodification

“…This official use of one toponym over a contested alternative by given states and nations can represent a form of toponymic cleansing (Azaryahu and Golan, 2001).…”

From legalism to symbolism: anti-mobility and national identity in Israel, 1948–1958

“…Being an official text, the Hebraicized national map asserted the Jewish identity of the state of Israel as a conflation of the cultural and the territorial aspects of Jewish sovereignty'. 29 Others similarly showed that the Hebraicization of new Jewish immigrants' names was an important practice of re-territorialization in Israel during its early years. Strongly promoted by teachers and other agents of socialization in the educational system, youth movements and immigrants' transition camps (Ma'abarot), renaming was a symbolic act of shedding an old, diasporic identity and adopting instead a nominal Israeli identity.…”