{"product_id":"till-we-have-built-jerusalem-architects-of-a-new-city-paperback","title":"Till We Have Built Jerusalem: Architects of a New City - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAdina Hoffman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA biographical excavation of one of the world's great, troubled cities\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA remarkable view of one of the world's most beloved and troubled cities, Adina Hoffman's \u003ci\u003eTill We Have Built Jerusalem\u003c\/i\u003e is a gripping and intimate journey into the very different lives of three architects who helped shape modern Jerusalem. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The book unfolds as an excavation. It opens with the 1934 arrival in Jerusalem of the celebrated Berlin architect Erich Mendelsohn, a refugee from Hitler's Germany who must reckon with a complex new Middle Eastern reality. Next we meet Austen St. Barbe Harrison, Palestine's chief government architect from 1922 to 1937. Steeped in the traditions of Byzantine and Islamic building, this \"most private of public servants\" finds himself working under the often stifling and violent conditions of British rule. And in the riveting final section, Hoffman herself sets out through the battered streets of today's Jerusalem searching for traces of a possibly Greek, possibly Arab architect named Spyro Houris. Once a fixture on the local scene, Houris is now utterly forgotten, though his grand Armenian-tile-clad buildings still stand, a ghostly testimony to the cultural fluidity that has historically characterized Jerusalem at its best. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A beautifully written rumination on memory and forgetting, place and displacement, \u003ci\u003eTill We Have Built Jerusalem \u003c\/i\u003euncovers the ramifying layers of one great city's buried history as it asks what it means, everywhere, to be foreign and to belong.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAdina Hoffman\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of\u003ci\u003e House of Windows: Portraits from a Jerusalem Neighborhood\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet's Life in the Palestinian Century\u003c\/i\u003e. She is also the author, with Peter Cole, of\u003ci\u003e Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza\u003c\/i\u003e, which received the American Library Association's award for the Jewish book of the year. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, she was awarded one of the inaugural Windham Campbell prizes in 2013. She divides her time between Jerusalem and New Haven.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 364\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.82 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 11, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47457075233021,"sku":"9780374536787","price":35.06,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/3414\/0157\/files\/ZVdrend0b2xqNHJaVFZ2UGpDdm1SZz09.webp?v=1777234103","url":"https:\/\/booktolia.com\/products\/till-we-have-built-jerusalem-architects-of-a-new-city-paperback","provider":"booktolia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}