Jerusalem: City of Mirrors - Softcover

Elon, Amos

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571275419 ISBN 13: 9780571275410

Verlag: Faber & Faber, 2011

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'A brilliantly illuminating book.' Philip Roth

Jerusalem: City of Mirrors is an absorbing contemplation of the fabled city which for the Western mind remains as much a myth as a physical reality.

First published in 1990, Amos Elon's elegant, dazzling biography of Jerusalem gives a profound insight into the kaleidoscopic culture of this eternally magical city. Battle-scarred from four thousand years of violent conflict, the holy city is a sacred symbol of Judaism, Islam and Christianity, and its religious wars of today reflect those of the past - Arab versus Jew, orthodox versus secular, continuity versus change.

'Elon's Jerusalem is both a learned book and a charming one ... He places us before a veritable many-layered mountain of myth and history, a compressed symbol of our most sublime aspirations along with our most disgusting, hatefully brainless excursions into religious bigotry and fratricide. It is a book as complex and surprising as the city itself.' Arthur Miller

'A superbly readable study.'Jewish Chronicle

'A book which should be read by all.' Catholic Herald

Biografía del autor:

Amos Elon (1926-2009) was an essayist, journalist and historian. He was born in Vienna, immigrating to Palestine when a child in 1933. He was for long considered one of Israel's leading journalists. Never a mere votary of Zionism, he finally moved to Tuscany when his disillusionment became closer to despair. Inevitably branded 'a self-hating jew' he once on television snapped at a reactionary accuser, 'I don't hate myself, I just hate Jews like you.' The author of nine books, Faber Finds is reissuing four of them: Founder; The Israelis; Jerusalem and Herzl

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• Verlag: Faber & Faber
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0571275419
• ISBN 13: 9780571275410
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 324