Jerusalem, City of Mirrors - Hardcover

Elon, Amos

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0316233889 ISBN 13: 9780316233880

Publisher: Little Brown & Co, 1989

Synopsis

The past and future of one of the world's greatest yet most troubled cities, the mecca of three religions and the object of continual political strife, is given a wide-ranging and authoritative treatment by a distinguished Israeli journalist

About this title

About the Author:

Amos Elon (1926-2009) was an essayist, journalist and historian. He was born in Vienna, immigrating to Palestine when a child in 1933. He was for long considered one of Israel's leading journalists. Never a mere votary of Zionism, he finally moved to Tuscany when his disillusionment became closer to despair. Inevitably branded 'a self-hating jew' he once on television snapped at a reactionary accuser, 'I don't hate myself, I just hate Jews like you.' The author of nine books, Faber Finds is reissuing four of them: Founder; The Israelis; Jerusalem and Herzl

From Publishers Weekly:

Modern Jerusalem, in Elon's words, is "a breeding ground of ghettos." Israelis and Palestinians continue to work and live apart from one another; the city fissures into four rough quadrangles--Moslem, Jewish, Christian, Armenian--each with its own religion, its distinctive tongue or tongues. In a rich, beautifully written, impartial meditation that is also a healing act, Elon, noted Israeli author and journalist ( Herzl ; The Israelis: Founders and Sons ), measures the clarity of Jerusalem's biblical landscape against a past and present choked with religious and political strife. For a host of pilgrims from Dominican friar Felix Fabri to Mark Twain, Chateaubriand and Gogol, Jerusalem has served as a mirror of faith, despair, hope or disbelief. Elon, a contemporary wanderer through Jerusalem, as well as a long-time resident, sadly finds that the modern city "has almost always been intolerant and exclusivist."
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About this edition

• Publisher: Little Brown & Co
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0316233889
• ISBN 13: 9780316233880
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 264