• Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction
• 1. The Hard Borders of the City
• 2. The "Softer" Borders of the City
• 3. The Scattered Borders of Holiness
• 4. The International Community and Jerusalem
• 5. Jerusalem in the Twenty-First Century: What Prospect of Peace? Appendix: Web Site and Facebook Surveys Notes Index.
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Jerusalem's formal political borders reveal neither the dynamics of power in the city nor the underlying factors that make an agreement between Israel and the Palestinians so difficult. The lines delineating Israeli authority are frequently different from those delineating segregated housing or areas of uneven service provision or parallel national electoral districts of competing educational jurisdictions. In particular, the city's large number of holy sites and restricted religious compounds create enclaves that continually threaten to undermine the Israeli state's authority and control over the city. This lack of congruity between political control and the actual spatial organization and everyday use of the city leaves many areas of occupied East Jerusalem in a kind of twilight zone where citizenship, property rights, and the enforcement of the rule of law are ambiguously applied. Michael Dumper plots a history of Jerusalem that examines this intersecting and multileveled matrix and, in so doing, is able to portray the constraints on Israeli control over the city and the resilience of Palestinian enclaves after forty-five years of Israeli occupation. Adding to this complex mix is the role of numerous external influences-religious, political, financial, and cultural-so that the city is also a crucible for broader contestation. While the Palestinians may not return to their previous preeminence in the city, neither will Israel be able to assert a total and irreversible dominance. His conclusion is that the city will not only have to be shared but that the sharing will be based upon these many borders and the interplay between history, geography, and religion.
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• Introduction: history of the research
• Natural and built city limits
• The Chalcolithic period and the Bronze Age
• The Iron Age
• The Babylonian and Persian periods
• The Hellenistic period
• The Roman period
• The Byzantine period
• The early Islamic period
• The crusader and Ayyubid periods
• The Mamluk period
• The Ottoman period.

In this sweeping and lavishly illustrated history, Katharina Galor and Hanswulf Bloedhorn survey nearly four thousand years of human settlement and building activity in Jerusalem, from prehistoric times through the Ottoman period. The study is structured chronologically, exploring the city's material culture, including fortifications and water systems as well as key sacred, civic, and domestic architecture. Distinctive finds such as paintings, mosaics, pottery, and coins highlight each period. Their book provides a unique perspective on the emergence and development of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and the relationship among the three religions and their cultures into the modern period.
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• Preface viii
• Prologue xi
• 1 Herzl, Weizmann and the Balfour Declaration 1
• 2 Jabotinsky, Ben?Gurion and the Iron Wall 38
• 3 "National Homeland" 64
• 4 Al?Nakba (Catastrophe) 103
• 5 Eretz Yisrael 137
• 6 Settlements 177
• 7 The "Separation Barrier" 227
• 8 In Palestine 265
• 9 Netanyahu, Trump and the Future 310
• Epilogue 337
• Index 341.
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A complete examination of the men and forces that created and shaped the modern state of Israel over the last hundred years Walls of Jerusalem is a study of the creation and evolution of the modern state of Israel. This unique work begins with the actions of four extraordinary men -- Theodor Herzl, Chaim Weizmann, Ze'ev Jabotinsky, and David Ben-Gurion -- and follows with their influence on subsequent leaders and on the political and military decisions that have shaped and changed Jerusalem and the nation. The resulting physical realty has made concrete the shift in vison from the broad utopian ideals of the beginning, to the separation barrier and settlement enclaves that increasingly divide both Jewish and Palestinian cultures. The author traveled across the West Bank, into the Israeli settlements and along the Israeli security barrier dividing Israel from Palestine. He entered the tombs, mosques and synagogues, experienced the distortion of Jerusalem since the building of the separation barrier - the watchtowers, the welded gates, the shuttered shops, divided highways and back-ways, tunnels, bridges, checkpoints, to better understand evolving reality that defines the stage for the future relationship between Israel and Palestine. Walls of Jerusalem is a timely book, its vivid narrative journeys through a century and a half of dreams and conflicts that lead to a divided Jerusalem: It presents each stage of Israel's evolution, from the 1896 publication of Herzl's Der Judenstaat and the Balfour Declaration, to the opening of the United States embassy in Jerusalem in 2018 Relates the visions of Israel's creators to the destructive and constructive forces utilized to create a new nation Reviews the century long attempts by international organizations to resolve the conflict between Jews and Palestinians Makes every effort to present a balanced exploration of challenges facing the state of Israel and its place on the world stage, but in conclusion gives emphasis to the plight of the Palestinians Integrates illustrations with text to provide a detailed portrait of central figures in modern Israel's history.
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• A room of her own : Sylvia Schein's contribution to medieval history
• 1. Jerusalem : goal of the First Crusade
• 2. The conquest -- a divine act
• 3. 'Inheritance of the Lord' : justifications of Christian rule in Jerusalem
• 4. Rome, Babylon and Jerusalem : papal attitudes to Jerusalem
• 5. From the 'city of the Holy Sepulchre' to the 'city of the humanity of Christ'
• 6. The city of the Old and New Testaments
• 7. Jerusalem in the believer's plan of salvation
• 8. Jerusalem -- centre of the world and scene of the last days
• 9. 'The terrible news' : the reaction of Christendom to the fall of Jerusalem (1187).

Gateway to the Heavenly City presents a penetrating analysis of the attitudes of Latin Christendom towards Jerusalem in the period from the First Crusade to the Muslim capture of the city in 1187. Sylvia Schein starts by exploring the changes in the Western image of Jerusalem, first as the goal of the crusade, then after its conquest. She examines the theories used to justify the conquest and rule of the Holy City and the attitudes of the papacy towards this new rival centre of sanctity. Subsequent chapters describe the new character of Jerusalem's sanctity as the city of the Old and New Testaments, as the earthly gateway to the heavenly city, and in apocalyptic terms as the centre of the world and the place where the events of the end of the world would unroll. The reaction to the fall of crusader Jerusalem in 1187 is the subject of the final chapter. Based on a detailed examination of the source materials, from poetry and song to chronicles and charters, this book paints a clear picture of the place of the Earthly and the Heavenly Jerusalem in Latin Christendom.
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• Introduction
• 1. Jerusalem and the Demise of the Oslo Peace Process
• 2. Sacred Urbanism
• 3. Jerusalem in Religious Studies
• 4. The City and the Body
• 5. Contested Ignominies and Conflicting Sacralities
• 6. Changing Research Perspectives on the Changing City
• 7. Viewing the Holy City
• 8. Sex and the City
• 9. Jerusalem in Java
• 10. Jerusalem, Tourism, and the Politics of Heritage.
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Jerusalem is one of the most contested urban spaces in the world. It is a multicultural city, but one that is unlike other multiethnic cities such as London, Toronto, Paris, or New York. This book brings together scholars from across the social sciences and the humanities to consider how different disciplinary theories and methods contribute to the study of conflict and cooperation in modern Jerusalem. Several essays in the book centre on political decision-making; others focus on local and social issues. While Jerusalem's centrality to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is explored, the chapters also cover issues that are unevenly explored in recent studies of the city. These include Jerusalem's diverse communities of secular and orthodox Jewry and Christian Palestinians; religious and political tourism and the ""heritage managers"" of Jerusalem; the Israeli and Palestinian LGBT community and its experiences in Jerusalem; and visual and textual perspectives on Jerusalem, particularly in architecture and poetry. Adelman and Elman argue that Jerusalem is not solely a place of contention and violence, and that it should be seen as a physical and demographic reality that must function for all its communities.
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• Jerusalem during World War I: a multiethnic city in time of an acute crisis
• Identities in transition: contested space and identities in Jerusalem
• Between Ottomanism and Zionism: the case of the Sephardi community
• When a city changes hands: Jerusalem between Ottoman and British rule
• Between the Muslim-Christian associations and the Muslim national associations: the rise of intercommunal tension.

• ""Contents""; ""Illustrations""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Jerusalem, a Colonial City under Construction""; ""Diverse Absences""; ""Myths, Memorials, and Monuments in the Jerusalem of Israelâ€?s Imagination""; ""Arabs Out of Place""; ""National Boundaries, Colonized Spaces""; ""Appropriate Places""; ""Up from the Ruins?""; ""Works Cited""; ""Index""

In one of the few anthropological works focusing on a contemporary Middle Eastern city, Colonial Jerusalem explores a vibrant urban center at the core of the decades-long Palestinian-Israeli conflict. This book shows how colonialism, far from being simply a fixture of the past as is often suggested, remains a crucial component of Palestinian and Israeli realities today. Abowd deftly illuminates everyday life under Israel's long military occupation as it is defined by processes and conditions of ""apartness"" and separation as Palestinians are increasingly regulated and controlled. Abowd examines how both national communities are progressively divided by walls, checkpoints, and separate road networks in one of the most segregated cities in the world. Drawing upon recent theories on racial politics, colonialism, and urban spatial dynamics, Colonial Jerusalem analyzes the politics of myth, history, and memory across an urban landscape integral to the national cosmologies of both Palestinians and Israelis and meaningful to all communities.
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• List of Figures Acknowledgments
• 1. The Erasure of Ottoman Palestine
• 2. The Diary of Ihsan Turjman Notes Index.
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"Year of the Locust" captures in page-turning detail the end of the Ottoman world and a pivotal moment in Palestinian history. In the diaries of Ihsan Hasan al-Turjman (1893-1917), the first ordinary recruit to describe World War I from the Arab side, we follow the misadventures of an Ottoman soldier stationed in Jerusalem. There he occupied himself by dreaming about his future and using family connections to avoid being sent to the Suez. His diaries draw a unique picture of daily life in the besieged city, bringing into sharp focus its communitarian alleys and obliterated neighborhoods, the ongoing political debates, and, most vividly, the voices from its streets - soldiers, peddlers, prostitutes, and vagabonds. Salim Tamari's indispensable introduction places the diary in its local, regional, and imperial contexts while deftly revising conventional wisdom on the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire.
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