Jerusalem: City of the Book

Merav Mack,Benjamin Balint,Frédéric Brenner

ISBN 10: 0300222858 / ISBN 13: 9780300222852

Published by Yale University Press, 2019

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272 pages. A captivating journey through the hidden libraries of Jerusalem, where some o f the world?s most enduring ideas were put into wordsIn this enthral ling book, Merav Mack and Benjamin Balint explore Jerusalem?s libraries to tel l the story of this city as a place where some of the world?s most enduring id eas were put into words. The writers of Jerusalem, although renowned the world o ver, are not usually thought of as a distinct school; their stories as Jerusalem ites have never before been woven into a single narrative. Nor have the stories of the custodians, past and present, who safeguard Jerusalem?s literary legaci es.By showing how Jerusalem has been imagined by its writers and shelv ed 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 itsel f?perched between East and West, antiquity and modernity, violence and piety? ?comes alive as a kind of labyrinthine library.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Jerusalem: City of the Book
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300222858
• ISBN 13: 9780300222852
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

Merav Mack and Benjamin Balint explore Jerusalem’s hidden libraries and texts to tell the story of this city as a place where some of the world’s most enduring ideas were put into words. In their hands, Jerusalem itself—perched between antiquity and modernity—comes alive as a kind of labyrinthine library.

About the Author

Merav Mack is a historian and scholar of contemporary religion affiliated with the Harry S. Truman Research Institute at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the German Protestant Institute for Archaeology at Augusta Victoria. Her current research focuses on Christian minorities in the Middle East. Benjamin Balint is a writer and translator based at the Van Leer Institute in Jerusalem. His previous books include Running Commentary and Kafka’s Last Trial.