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Jerusalem - City of the Book (Hardcover) Loot Price: R720
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Jerusalem - City of the Book (Hardcover): Merav Mack, Benjamin Balint

Jerusalem - City of the Book (Hardcover)

Merav Mack, Benjamin Balint; Photographs by Fr ed eric Brenner

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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 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 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.

General

Imprint: Yale University Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: June 2019
Authors: Merav Mack • Benjamin Balint
Photographers: Fr ed eric Brenner
Dimensions: 235 x 156 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 978-0-300-22285-2
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General
Books > Humanities > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Jewish studies
Books > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
LSN: 0-300-22285-8
Barcode: 9780300222852

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