| Description |
1 online resource (x, 328 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Stone : Arabic in the age of Ottomanism -- Dog : the Zionification of Hebrew -- Gold : text and value -- Paper : banknotes and the colonial dictionary -- Ceramic : the British street-naming campaign -- Wall : Hebrew graffiti on the Western Wall -- Cloth : the banners of Nabi Musa -- Cardboard : visiting cards and identification papers |
| Summary |
"For years, Yair Wallach walked the streets of Jerusalem, searching for writing on its walls. He looked for graffiti, logos, inscriptions, official signs, and ephemera, focusing on how modern Jerusalem took shape in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. From 1850 to 1948 Jerusalem was a city of increasingly contradictory trajectories, as Ottoman rulers, British colonial officials, Arab nationalists, Zionist activists, and Orthodox Jews negotiated its future. Text in Hebrew, Arabic, and other languages became a key means to organize space, society, and subjectivity. Wallach reassembles these written fragments to reveal how the logics of state and capital shaped the modern city"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 21, 2020) |
| Subject |
Written communication -- Jerusalem
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Language and history -- Jerusalem
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Language and history
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Travel
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Written communication
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| SUBJECT |
Jerusalem -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh88002640
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Jerusalem -- History -- 19th century
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Jerusalem -- History -- 20th century
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| Subject |
Middle East -- Jerusalem
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2019037474 |
| ISBN |
9781503611146 |
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1503611140 |
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