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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Summary |
In this enchanting book, Merav Mack and Benjamin Balint explore Jerusalem's libraries 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 story as Jerusalemites has 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, safeguarded, and shelved in libraries, 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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Prologue; INTRODUCTION: The Hidden; CHAPTER ONE: Creating a Canon: Antiquity; CHAPTER TWO: The Arabic Era: 637 to 1099; CHAPTER THREE: Medieval Mingling: 1099 to 1244; CHAPTER FOUR: From Mamluk Patronage to Ottoman Occupation: The Thirteenth to the Nineteenth Century; CHAPTER FIVE: Dragomans and Thieves: The Nineteenth Century; CHAPTER SIX: Dreamers and Visionaries: Between Two Centuries; CHAPTER SEVEN: Rescue and Return: The Twentieth Century; EPILOGUE: The Closed Gate; Notes; Acknowledgments; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O |
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PQ; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; Color Plates |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Libraries -- Jerusalem -- History.
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Libraries. |
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History. |
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Manuscripts -- Jerusalem -- History.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Library & Information Science -- Archives & Special Libraries. |
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Manuscripts. |
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HISTORY -- Middle East -- Israel. |
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Middle East -- Jerusalem. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Balint, Benjamin, 1976- author.
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Brenner, Frédéric, 1959- photographer.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: MACK, MERAV. BALINT, BENJAMIN. JERUSALEM. [Place of publication not identified], YALE UNIV Press, 2019 0300222858 (OCoLC)1055265031 |
| ISBN |
9780300245219 (electronic book) |
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0300245211 (electronic book) |
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0300222858 |
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9780300222852 |
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