Jerusalem: city of the book

"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 a...

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Authors: Mack, Merav (Author) ; Balint, Benjamin Z. 1976- (Author)
Contributors: Brenner, Frédéric 1959- (Photographer)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: New Haven London Yale University Press [2019]
In:Year: 2019
Reviews:[Rezension von: Mack, Merav, Jerusalem : city of the book] (2023) (Zucker, David J., 1942 -)
[Rezension von: Mack, Merav, Jerusalem : city of the book] (2021) (Notarius, Tania, 1967 -)
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Jerusalem / Library / Handwriting / History
Further subjects:B Manuscripts (Jerusalem) History
B History ; fast ; (OCoLC)fst01411628
B Libraries (Jerusalem) History
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Summary:"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 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 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."--Jacket flap
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:0300222858