To Rule Jerusalem Hardcover - 1996
by Roger Friedland; Richard Hecht
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- Hardcover
Twentieth-century Jerusalem is doubly divided. As well as being a holy site for both Judaism and Islam, the city contains secular Israelis and Palestinians who ground their respective national identities within its borders. This book provides a historical and ethnographic account of how Jerusalem has become the battleground for conflicts both within and between the Israeli and Palestinian communities. 49 halftone illustrations. 10 maps.
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- Title To Rule Jerusalem
- Author Roger Friedland; Richard Hecht
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 574
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Cambridge University Press, West Nyack, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 1996
- Features Maps
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0521440467I4N00
- ISBN 9780521440462 / 0521440467
- Weight 2.12 lbs (0.96 kg)
- Dimensions 9.31 x 6.42 x 1.75 in (23.65 x 16.31 x 4.45 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Middle Eastern
- Religious Orientation: Jewish
- Library of Congress subjects Jerusalem - Social conditions, Jerusalem - Ethnic relations
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95040499
- Dewey Decimal Code 305.800
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From the rear cover
To Rule Jerusalem is an historical and ethnographic account of the twentieth-century struggle for Jerusalem. The volume examines how Jerusalem is doubly divided, on the one hand between Israelis and Palestinians, both of whom ground their national identities in the city, as well as within each nation between those who put primacy in the democratic decisions of their nations and those who would yield to a higher divine law. Roger Friedland and Richard Hecht explore how Jerusalem has figured as a battleground in conflicts over the relation between Zionism and Judaism and between Palestinian nationalism and Islam. Based on hundreds of interviews with powerful players and ordinary citizens over the course of a decade, this book evokes the ways in which these conflicts are experienced and managed in the life of the city.
