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Jerusalem in History
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Jerusalem In History
By K.J. Asali (ed.), Olive Branch Press, 2000, 303 pp. List: $18.95; AET: $14.
Reviewed by Susanne Martikke
Susanne Martikke holds an MA in American Studies, German Literature and Ethnology from Frankfurt University. She has worked as a journalist, editor and translator.
There could have been no better time to publish a slightly updated edition of Jerusalem In History than the year 2000, marked as it was by the apparent failure of the peace process and a resurgence of violence. Ten years after the original publication of this volume on Jerusalem's history, the failure of ...
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