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082	0	4	_a027.0569442 _bM E R
100	1		_aMack, Merav, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aJerusalem : _bcity of the book / _cMerav Mack and Benjamin Balint ; with photography by Frédéric Brenner.
264		1	_aNew Haven : _bYale University Press, _c[2019]
264		4	_c©2019
300			_avi, 263 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_a"In this enthralling book, Merav Mack and Benjamin Balint explore Jerusalem's libraries to tell the story of this city as a place where some of the world's most enduring ideas were put into words. The writers of Jerusalem, although renowned the world over, are not usually thought of as a distinct school; their story as Jerusalemites has never before been woven into a single narrative. Nor have the stories of the custodians, past and present, who safeguard Jerusalem's literary legacies. By showing how Jerusalem has been imagined by its writers and shelved by its librarians, Mack and Balint tell the untold history of how the peoples of the book have populated the city with texts. In their hands, Jerusalem itself-perched between East and West, antiquity and modernity, violence and piety-comes alive as a kind of labyrinthine library"--Jacket flap.
650		0	_aGeneralities
650		0	_aLibraries
650		0	_aManuscripts
650		7	_aManuscripts. _2fast
650		7	_aLibraries. _2fast
650		7	_aHandschrift. _2gnd
650		7	_aAltes Buch. _2gnd
650		7	_aManuskript. _2gnd
651		7	_aMiddle East _zJerusalem.
651		7	_aJerusalem.
700	1		_aBalint, Benjamin, _d1976- _eauthor.
700	1		_aBrenner, Frédéric, _d1959- _ephotographer.
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