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THE JERUSALEM QUESTION 1917~1968.
[Buy it!] | Bovis, H. Eugene | USD 20.00
(Thu May 23 20:04:45 2024) | Abebooks | Chris Fessler, Bookseller | ISBN10: 0817932917, ISBN13: 9780817932916, [publisher: Stanford CA. 1974. Hoover Institution Press / Stanford University] Hardcover brown full cloth hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. erasure spot on front flyleaf, otherwise contents free of markings. dustwrapper in near fine cond. tiny tear front top, missing little (<1cm) piece spine top, not price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. second printing. xi+175p. 3 b&w maps. 3 appendices. notes. bibliography. index. world history. middle east history. british mandate palestine. history of israel. balfour declaration. sykes~picot agreement. ~ Probably no city in the world has a richer religious heritage nor more intractable political problems than Jerusalem. Jerusalem is a sacred city for three of the world's greatest religions ~ Islam, Judaism and Christianity ~ and as such it presents the serious problem of how the various religions' shrines are to be protected. At the same time, lying on the Israeli~Jordanian border, it is geographically destined to be caught up in the ongoing Arab~Israeli struggle. The Jerusalem Question; by Eugene Bovis, who for many years was a Foreign Service Officer in the Middle East, addresses just these questions. Bevis points out that there are two basic problems in Jerusalem~control of the city and control of the religious shrines. Until the fall of the Ottoman Empire in World War I, Jerusalem had been controlled by Islam for 700 years, and so political control was not a serious question. After 1917, however, the Jerusalem question became deeply immeshed in the ongoing struggle for the control of Palestine. Countless schemes for governing the city ~ internationalizing it, setting up a condominium of Jordan and Israel, and establishing a borough system, to name the major categories~have been suggested, but the problem remains as intractable as ever. Protection of religious shrines is probably an even more critical problem, since it affects beliefs held by hundreds of millions of people who have never set foot in the Middle East. In fact, during the 700 years of Ottoman political control of Jerusalem, the Western nations vied with each other for the right to be protector of the Christian shrines. Innumerable plans proposed during the past half century to protect the shrines and parcel out political control of the city are traced in detail by the author. The book concludes with a presentation of a half dozen possible options that could be taken today. H. Eugene Bovis has been a Foreign Service Officer since 1952, serving in Lebanon, Israel, and Egypt, as well as Washington D.C. He received a Ph.D. from American University, Washington, D.C., and has traveled widely in Europe and the Middle East.
[Howell, MI, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1971]
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The Jews of Latin America
[Buy it!] | Elkin, Judith Laikin | USD 6.53
(Thu May 23 20:04:44 2024) | Abebooks | Open Books | ISBN10: 0841913692, ISBN13: 9780841913691, [publisher: Holmes & Meier Pub] Softcover Open Books is a nonprofit social venture that provides literacy experiences for thousands of readers each year through inspiring programs and creative capitalization of books.
[Chicago, IL, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1998] |
