To
Rule Jerusalem
is a study of the intertwining of
religion and politics, exploring the city as simul–
taneously an ordinary place and an extraordinary
symbol. Roger Friedland and Richard Hecht
examine how Jerusalem is doubly divided, on
the one hand between Israelis and Palestinians,
each of whom ground their national identities
in the city, as well as within each nation between
those who put primacy in the democratic decisions of their nations and
those who would yield to a higher divine law. They explore how Jerusalem
has figured as a battleground in conflicts over the relation between Zionism
and Judaism and between Palestinian nationalism and Islam. Based on hun–
dreds of interviews with powerful players and ordinary citizens over the
course of a decade, this book evokes the ways in which these conflicts are
experienced and managed in the life of the city.
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