Jerusalem: City of the Book

Merav Mack and Benjamin Balint explore the hidden libraries of Jerusalem to uncover the story of this city as a place where some of the world's most enduring ideas were put into words. They show how Jerusalem has been imagined by its writers and shelved by its librarians, revealing the untold history of how the peoples of the book have populated the city with texts.

Format: Hardback
Length: 272 pages
Publication date: 04 June 2019
Publisher: Yale University Press

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 the libraries of Jerusalem 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.

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 the libraries of Jerusalem 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.

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 the libraries of Jerusalem 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.

Weight: 604g
Dimension: 242 x 162 x 24 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780300222852