Inhumane, Intolerant, Unclean
Ian Gilmour, 31 October 1996
A History of Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths
by Karen Armstrong.
HarperCollins, 474 pp., £20, July 1996,0 00 255522 0 Show More
by Karen Armstrong.
HarperCollins, 474 pp., £20, July 1996,
Jewish History, Jewish Religion: The Weight of Three Thousand Years
by Israel Shahak.
Pluto, 118 pp., £11.99, April 1994,9780745308180 Show More
by Israel Shahak.
Pluto, 118 pp., £11.99, April 1994,
City of the Great King: Jerusalem from David to the Present
edited by Nitza Rosovsky.
Harvard, 562 pp., £25.50, April 1996,0 674 13190 8 Show More
edited by Nitza Rosovsky.
Harvard, 562 pp., £25.50, April 1996,
Jerusalem in the 20th Century
by Martin Gilbert.
Chatto, 400 pp., £20, May 1996,0 7011 3070 9 Show More
by Martin Gilbert.
Chatto, 400 pp., £20, May 1996,
Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict
by Norman Finkelstein.
Verso, 230 pp., £39.95, December 1995,1 85984 940 7 Show More
by Norman Finkelstein.
Verso, 230 pp., £39.95, December 1995,
To Rule Jerusalem
by Roger Friedland and Richard Hecht.
Cambridge, 554 pp., £29.95, June 1996,0 521 44046 7 Show More
by Roger Friedland and Richard Hecht.
Cambridge, 554 pp., £29.95, June 1996,
“... signalled in 1974 and unambiguously announced in 1988. Yet despite these and other blunders Friedland and Hecht are usually fair, and their book, based on many interviews conducted over a period of years, contains much fascinating material. They are especially good on the fast increasing number of Orthodox Jews in Jerusalem. The founder of political ... ”
