Divided Jerusalem: The Struggle for the Holy City (Second Edition) - Softcover

Bernard Wasserstein

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0300097301 ISBN 13: 9780300097306

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2002

Synopsis

In this timely and balanced book, Bernard Wasserstein traces the history of diplomatic struggles over Jerusalem from the Crusades to the present day. Wasserstein illuminates the complicated origins of the current diplomatic impasse, details the negotiations of the last thirty years, and examines the prospects for lasting negotiated peace in this deeply divided city. This second edition includes new, updated material.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Praise for the first edition:

"A lively and provocative new history. . . . Wasserstein has produced a crisply written and irony-laced account of the city that may well have more history per capita than any other." -Thomas W. Lippman, Washington Post Book World

"Wasserstein . . . writes clearly and dispassionately on a theme that has been more cliché-ridden than most and long monopolized by propagandists and hucksters. . . . His book is the most sober and in many ways the fairest description I know of official positions and popular sentiments on both sides between 1967 and 1999." -Amos Elon, New York Review of Books

Named one of the best books of the year by the Washington Post Book World and the Economist

About the Author:

Bernard Wasserstein is professor of history at the University of Glasgow. He is the author of many books, including The Secret Lives of Trebitsch Lincoln (published by Yale University Press) and Vanishing Diaspora: The Jews in Europe since 1945.

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0300097301
• ISBN 13: 9780300097306
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 440