Jewish Urban Space in the Films of Daniel Burman and Woody Allen

Michel de Certeau begins his classic essay “Walking in the City” (1984) with a description of the view from the 110th floor of the World Trade Center in New York. As he puts it, “To be lifted to the summit of the World Trade Center is to be lifted out of the city’s grasp” (92). This represents a culminating modern image that has its origins in medieval and Renaissance paintings of cities that grant to the spectator “a celestial eye” looking down on the city as a panorama. Later this becomes the “rational city” of Enlightenment thought. Symbols of the