Jerusalem

City of the Book

Nonfiction, History, Middle East, Israel, Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Books & Reading, Jewish
Cover of the book Jerusalem by Merav Mack, Benjamin Balint, Frédéric Brenner, Yale University Press
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Author: Merav Mack, Benjamin Balint, Frédéric Brenner ISBN: 9780300245219
Publisher: Yale University Press Publication: May 14, 2019
Imprint: Yale University Press Language: English
Author: Merav Mack, Benjamin Balint, Frédéric Brenner
ISBN: 9780300245219
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication: May 14, 2019
Imprint: Yale University Press
Language: English

A captivating journey through the hidden libraries of Jerusalem, where some of the world’s most enduring ideas were put into words

In this enthralling book, Merav Mack and Benjamin Balint explore Jerusalem’s libraries to tell the story of this city as a place where some of the world’s most enduring ideas were put into words. The writers of Jerusalem, although renowned the world over, are not usually thought of as a distinct school; their stories as Jerusalemites have never before been woven into a single narrative. Nor have the stories of the custodians, past and present, who safeguard Jerusalem’s literary legacies.

By showing how Jerusalem has been imagined by its writers and shelved by its librarians, Mack and Balint tell the untold history of how the peoples of the book have populated the city with texts. In their hands, Jerusalem itself—perched between East and West, antiquity and modernity, violence and piety—comes alive as a kind of labyrinthine library.

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A captivating journey through the hidden libraries of Jerusalem, where some of the world’s most enduring ideas were put into words

In this enthralling book, Merav Mack and Benjamin Balint explore Jerusalem’s libraries to tell the story of this city as a place where some of the world’s most enduring ideas were put into words. The writers of Jerusalem, although renowned the world over, are not usually thought of as a distinct school; their stories as Jerusalemites have never before been woven into a single narrative. Nor have the stories of the custodians, past and present, who safeguard Jerusalem’s literary legacies.

By showing how Jerusalem has been imagined by its writers and shelved by its librarians, Mack and Balint tell the untold history of how the peoples of the book have populated the city with texts. In their hands, Jerusalem itself—perched between East and West, antiquity and modernity, violence and piety—comes alive as a kind of labyrinthine library.

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