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Roger Friedland and Richard Hecht
To Rule Jerusalem
$37.95, £26.95 paperback
978-0-520-22092-8
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604 pages, 6 x 9 inches, 38 b/w photographs
September 2000, Available worldwide
Categories: Middle Eastern Studies; Jewish Studies; Judaism
September 2000, Available worldwide
Categories: Middle Eastern Studies; Jewish Studies; Judaism
"The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been plentifully explored, but what makes this volume so engrossing is the way the authors open up the conflicts and dynamics within each side."—Ron H. Feldman, San Francisco Examiner
"[The authors bring] a kind of urgent first-person journalism to bear in their scholarly study of the politics of Jerusalem and the contemporary Middle East."—Jonathan Kirsch, Los Angeles Times
"[The authors bring] a kind of urgent first-person journalism to bear in their scholarly study of the politics of Jerusalem and the contemporary Middle East."—Jonathan Kirsch, Los Angeles Times
"To Rule Jerusalem is a study of religion and politics, Judaism and Zionism as well as Palestinian nationalism and Islam, and it brings a most remarkable perspective to a topic--conflict over Jerusalem--with which we all are, unfortunately, far more familiar than we might like to be."—Gregory Mahler, Shofar
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. To Rule Jerusalem provides a historical and ethnographic account of how Jerusalem has become the battleground for conflicts both within and between the Israeli and Palestinian communities. Roger Friedland and Richard Hecht examine 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. To Rule Jerusalem is a compelling study of the intertwining of religion and politics, exploring the city simultaneously as an ordinary place and an extraordinary symbol.