WALKING, REMEMBERING AND ENUNCIATING THE PLACE: JEWISH-ISRAELI MEMORIAL TRAILS IN NATURE

Among all their other possible interpretations, trails in nature can at times be conceptualised as embodied memorials – a phenomenon inviting memory studies to deliberate on trails as heritage. ‘Heritage and memory are similar in that they are productively synergistic by way of myriad forms of communication’, being ‘shared and produced through narratives, engagement with landscapes, performance and other endeavours’.¹ Trails themselves can act as such a communicative form. Designed with memorial qualities, they introduce an alternative to static commemoration – where ‘body and place memory conspire with co-participating others in ritualized scenes of co-remembering’,² challenging existing ideas on memorials’...