Research Catalog

To rule Jerusalem

Title
To rule Jerusalem / Roger Friedland, Richard Hecht.
Author
Friedland, Roger.
Publication
New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Filter by

1 Item

StatusFormatAccessCall NumberItem Location
Request for On-site UseRequest Scan
How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?
TextRequest in advance DS109.94 .F75 1996Off-site

Holdings

Details

Additional Authors
Hecht, Richard D.
Description
xvi, 554 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Summary
  • 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.
Series Statement
Cambridge cultural social studies
Uniform Title
Cambridge cultural social studies.
Subjects
Note
  • Includes index.
Contents
1. A Fearful Fusion -- 2. Zion Against Zionism -- 3. Black Zion -- 4. Sabbath Wars -- 5. To Control the Center -- 6. A Few Footsteps for the Messiah -- 7. Staking the Claim in Judea and Samaria -- 8. Building the Capital -- 9. Suburbs of the Messiah -- 10. Defensible Borders -- 11. Platform for Palestine -- 12. Zion for Palestine -- 13. A State of Mind -- 14. The Islamic Challenge -- 15. Baghdad, Berlin, and Jerusalem -- 16. Al-Quds and Tunis -- 17. The City That Ate Palestine -- 18. Heart of Stone.
ISBN
0521440467 (hc)
LCCN
95040499
OCLC
  • 33101120
  • ocm33101120
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries