Jerusalem: The Biography

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 18 בספט׳ 2012 - 784 עמודים
The epic history of three thousand years of faith, fanaticism, bloodshed, and coexistence, from King David to the 21st century, from the birth of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam to the Israel-Palestine conflict, from the bestselling author of The Romanovs • "Impossible to put down…. Vastly enjoyable." —The New York Times Book Review
 
How did this small, remote town become the Holy City, the “center of the world” and now the key to peace in the Middle East? In a gripping narrative, Simon Sebag Montefiore reveals this ever-changing city in its many incarnations, bringing every epoch and character blazingly to life. Jerusalem’s biography is told through the wars, love affairs, and revelations of the men and women who created, destroyed, chronicled and believed in Jerusalem. As well as the many ordinary Jerusalemites who have left their mark on the city, its cast varies from Solomon, Saladin and Suleiman the Magnificent to Cleopatra, Caligula and Churchill; from Abraham to Jesus and Muhammad; from the ancient world of Jezebel, Nebuchadnezzar, Herod and Nero to the modern times of the Kaiser, Disraeli, Mark Twain, Lincoln, Rasputin, Lawrence of Arabia and Moshe Dayan.
 
In this masterful narrative, Simon Sebag Montefiore brings the holy city to life and draws on the latest scholarship, his own family history, and a lifetime of study to show that the story of Jerusalem is truly the story of the world.
 

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Prologue
3
JUDAISM
14
The World of David 17
15
a small kingdom would become the worlds cynosure Ironically it
18
The Rise of David
23
The Kingdom and the Temple
26
The Kings of Judah
35
The Whore of Babylon
45
Slave to Sultan 287
285
Decline of the Mamluks
295
OTTOMAN
301
The Magnificence of Suleiman
303
Mystics and Messiahs
306
The Families
320
EMPIRE
326
Napoleon in the Holy Land
329

The Persians
52
The Macedonians
58
The Maccabees
70
The Romans Arrive
76
The Herods
83
Jesus Christ
100
The Last of the Herods
116
The Death of Jerusalem
128
PAGANISM
133
Aelia Capitolina
135
CHRISTIANITY
148
The Apogee of Byzantium
151
Persian Invasion
166
ISLAM
175
The Arab Conquest 177
176
The Temple Restored
187
Distant Masters
197
Tolerance and Lunacy
202
CRUSADE
214
The Slaughter 217
215
The Rise of Outremer
226
The Golden Age of Outremer
231
Stalemate
243
The LeperKing
252
Saladin
258
Saladin and Richard
268
The Saladin Dynasty
274
MAMLUK
284
Chateaubriand and Disraeli
334
The Albanian Conquest
342
The Evangelists
347
The New City
366
The New Religion
370
Arab City Imperial City
376
Russians
384
ZIONISM
388
The Kaiser
391
The OudPlayer of Jerusalem
400
World War
412
Arab Revolt Balfour Declaration
420
The Christmas Present
435
The Victors and the Spoils
447
The British Mandate
455
The Arab Revolt
468
The Dirty War
481
Jewish Independence Arab Catastrophe
496
Divided
504
Six Days
511
Family Trees
545
Maps
553
Acknowledgements
565
Notes
569
Bibliography
609
Index 629
628
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מידע על המחבר (2012)

SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE is a historian of Russia and the Middle East. Catherine the Great and Potemkin was short-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize. Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar won the History Book of the Year Prize at the British Book Awards. Young Stalin won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography, the Costa Biography Award, and le Grande Prix de la biographie politique. Jerusalem: The Biography was a worldwide best seller. Montefiore’s books are published in more than forty languages. He is the author of the novels Sashenka and One Night in Winter, which won the Paddy Power Political Fiction Book of the Year Award in 2014. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Montefiore graduated from Cambridge University, where he received his PhD. He lives in London.

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