By Vincent Lemire,Catherine Tihanyi,Lys Ann Weiss
In this masterly heritage, Lemire makes use of newly opened documents to discover how Jerusalem’s elite citizens of differing faiths cooperated via an intercommunity municipal council they created within the mid-1860s to manage the affairs of all population and enhance their shared urban. those citizens embraced a spirit of recent urbanism and cultivated a civic id that transcended faith and mirrored the really secular and cosmopolitan lifestyle of Jerusalem on the time. those few years could change into a tipping aspect within the city’s history—a pivotal second whilst the horizon of threat used to be nonetheless open, earlier than the council broke up in 1934, lower than British rule, into separate Jewish and Arab factions. Uncovering this frequently ignored diplomatic interval, Lemire unearths that the fight over Jerusalem used to be no longer traditionally inevitable—and for this reason isn't inevitably intractable. Jerusalem 1900 sheds mild on how the Holy urban as soon as functioned peacefully and illustrates the way it may sooner or later accomplish that again.
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