Jerusalem Transformed: Politics, Culture, and Hidden Corners [Hardcover]

The symposium that kicks off the latest volume of Studies in Contemporary Jewry focuses on the city that is at the very center of contemporary Jewish life, both geographically and culturally. Jerusalem is an extremely engaging and beautiful city as well as a source of continual controversy and contestation. The authors in the symposium discuss a wide range of topics, with a focus on politics and culture, offering readers provocative views on the city over the last 120 years.The symposium that kicks off the latest volume of Studies in Contemporary Jewry focuses on the city that is at the very center of contemporary Jewish life, both geographically and culturally. Jerusalem is an extremely engaging and beautiful city as well as a source of continual controversy and contestation. The authors in the symposium discuss a wide range of topics, with a focus on politics and culture, offering readers provocative views on the city over the last 120 years. Essays by historians and cultural scholars in the volume engage with such issues as visions of the city among Jews and non-Jews and musical and literary imaginings of the city, while other scholars bring original interpretations of the city's political evolution in the past century that will both surprise and intrigue readers. The extensive book review section illustrates the consistent interest in modern Jewish history and culture.Jonathan D. Sarna,The Transformation of Next Year in Jerusalem in the Postwar American HaggadahSidra DeKoven Ezrahi,Poetry in the City with No Horizon: Reading Jerusalem with Leah Goldberg, Zelda Mishkovsky, and Yehuda AmichaiBenjamin Z. Kedar,On Discontents with Jerusalem's SanctityArie M. Dubnov and Noah Hysler Rubin,The New New Jerusalem as Gateway to the East: British Visions for the Hebrew UniversityAssaf Selzer,The Wandering Hebrew University, 1914-1967Assaf Shelleg,Jerusalem, 1968: Meaningful DisharmoniesReuven Gafni,The Religio-ClÃ4