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    Jerusalem 1900: The Holy City in the Age of Possibilities
    Jerusalem 1900: The Holy City in the Age of Possibilities
    Jerusalem 1900: The Holy City in the Age of Possibilities
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    Jerusalem 1900: The Holy City in the Age of Possibilities

    By Vincent Lemire

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    Perhaps the most contested patch of earth in the world, Jerusalem’s Old City experiences consistent violent unrest between Israeli and Palestinian residents, with seemingly no end in sight. Today, Jerusalem’s endless cycle of riots and arrests appears intractable—even unavoidable—and it looks unlikely that harmony will ever be achieved in the city. But with Jerusalem 1900, historian Vincent Lemire shows us that it wasn’t always that way, undoing the familiar notion of Jerusalem as a lost cause and revealing a unique moment in history when a more peaceful future seemed possible.
     
    In this masterly history, Lemire uses newly opened archives to explore how Jerusalem’s elite residents of differing faiths cooperated through an intercommunity municipal council they created in the mid-1860s to administer the affairs of all inhabitants and improve their shared city. These residents embraced a spirit of modern urbanism and cultivated a civic identity that transcended religion and reflected the relatively secular and cosmopolitan way of life of Jerusalem at the time. These few years would turn out to be a tipping point in the city’s history—a pivotal moment when the horizon of possibility was still open, before the council broke up in 1934, under British rule, into separate Jewish and Arab factions. Uncovering this often overlooked diplomatic period, Lemire reveals that the struggle over Jerusalem was not historically inevitable—and therefore is not necessarily intractable. Jerusalem 1900 sheds light on how the Holy City once functioned peacefully and illustrates how it might one day do so again.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
    Release dateApr 21, 2017
    ISBN9780226188379
    Jerusalem 1900: The Holy City in the Age of Possibilities
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    Vincent Lemire

    Vincent Lemire is Associate Professor of Contemporary History at Gustave Eiffel University, Director of the Open Jerusalem European Research Council project, and Director of the French Research Center in Jerusalem. His most recent book is Jerusalem 1900: The Holy City in the Age of Possibilities.   Katell Berthelot is a historian working on Jews and Judaism in the Hellenistic and Roman periods and Professor at the French National Center for Scientific Research and Aix-Marseille University. She is the author of In Search of the Promised Land? The Hasmonean Dynasty between Biblical Models and Hellenistic Diplomacy and Jews and Their Roman Rivals: Pagan Rome's Challenge to Israel.   Julien Loiseau is Professor of the History of the Medieval Islamic World at Aix-Marseille University and former Director of the French Research Center in Jerusalem. A historian and Arabist, he has devoted his research to Egypt, Palestine, and Ethiopia in the Middle Ages. He is the author of The Mamluks: Political Experience in Medieval Islam.   Yann Potin, a historian and archivist, is a Senior Research Fellow at the French National Archives and Associate Professor of Legal History at the Institute of Public Law and Political and Social Sciences at Sorbonne Paris North University. He is coeditor of France in the World: A New Global History. Juliana Froggatt is an editor and translator who lives in Ferney-Voltaire, France.

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