JERUSALEM on EARTH Clamoring at Heaven Gate The PostSix Day War Decades eBook Abraham Rabinovich
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Martin Sieff, Washington Times
"Mesmerizing. Rabinovich's meticulous reporting fills in the untidy human reality that peeks out between the spiritual panoramas of Jerusalem."
Prof. Walter Reich, Washington Post
"The characters who fill this book populate the city with a breathtaking human variety found with such alarming and incandescent density nowhere else."
John Gross, New York Times
"Mr. Rabinovich is too seasoned a writer to exclaim over Jerusalem's diversity. The facts themselves make clear what a fantastic patchwork of creeds, traditions and races the city represents. Mr. Rabinovich is happiest, I believe, with individuals who are capable of looking beyond the particular tradition that formed them."
The unification of Jerusalem following the Six Day War marked a new chapter in the city's 4,000-year history, as Arabs and Jews adjusted after two wars to life without a border between them.
Jerusalem was transformed during this period from an urban backwater into a vibrant city worthy of its name. Amidst the swirl of religious and political passions unleashed by unification, eccentricity found fertile ground. In this overview, Jerusalem on Earth lingers on individuals who, in their distinctive, sometimes bizarre, personalities and world views, reflect the diverse and intensely human concoction that was, and is, post-1967 Jerusalem.
Abraham Rabinovich covered the city beat for a decade as a reporter for The Jerusalem Post.
-- An arsonist who sets fire to Jerusalem's al-Aksa Mosque, third holiest site in Islam, comes close to touching off a new war. The worst is averted when the culprit is discovered to be not an Israeli but a psychotic sheepshearer from Australia who wishes to be anointed king.
--The Vatican, in an unprecedented move, sues one of its own religious orders in a Jerusalem court, each side represented by a Jewish lawyer who is expert in canon law.
-- An ultra-religious Jew who crossed into Jordan as a young man to seek arms for a revolt against the secular Zionist state, engages his former prosecutor three decades later in a debate on the German philosopher Nietzsche before a packed Jerusalem hall.
-- An Arab scholar enamored of the Hebrew language publishes the first Arabic translation of the Mishna, the ancient compilation of Jewish law. Its descriptions of daily life in antiquity evoke in him nostalgia.
-- The murder of two nuns, a mother and daughter, in a Jerusalem convent temporarily suspends hostilities between the 'White' Russian church in East Jerusalem and the 'Red' Russian church in West Jerusalem.
-- In what psychologists would come to call the 'Jerusalem Syndrome', a number of tourists are briefly hospitalized each year after succumbing to the city's aura and assuming the persona of biblical figures.
-- Danish-born Sister Abraham, who speaks 15 languages and navigates the city on a bicycle, becomes the first white woman to be accepted as a nun in the Ethiopian church. She writes a book and solves a mystery.
---A police agent sent into the Mea Shearim quarter to penetrate a militant ultra-orthodox fringe makes surprising friends.
-- A maverick American architect, stopping off in Jerusalem with a backpack and sketch book, derails massive building projects and saves the city's skyline before moving on.
-- Arab and Jewish underworlds are among the first sectors to join forces after the war. The police are not far behind, with joint Arab-Jewish patrols.
-- A rare look into the inner sanctums of the Hassidic world as street war breaks out between feuding factions.
--A rabbi and an Arab village chief meet in the Mount of Olives cemetery to discuss which has priority - the rights of the dead or the rights of the living.
Through it all, we watch Mayor Teddy Kollek preside over the city with skill, wit and a defiant conviction that unification of the two Jerusalems can work.
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