What is the Purpose of your Trip to Jerusalem?

Abstract

The Melville and the Mediterranean conference, held in Jerusalem onJune 17-21, 2009, became a learning experience even days before itstarted. For many of us, the simple fact of going through the El Alsecurity control at the airport nearest to where we live, where we teach, wherewe read Melville, where we think Melville, implied going through the almostshocking and not very comfortable exercise of hearing articulated in the mouthof Israeli security staff the kind of questions some of us had been privately andsecretly asking ourselves...