The Siege poem denies Jews any memorial place, unlike Christian shrines
Evidence
In stark contrast to the shrines dedicated to the relics of the apostles and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, there is no place remaining, in the economy of the poem, to be associated with the Jews of Jerusalem. — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 290
Categorization
- ADDENDUM: The erasure of memorial places for the vanquished parallels the Grafting essay’s material-infrastructure angle: place-making encodes who gets remembered.