Jerusalem in the Mind of the Western World, 1800-1948

by Yehoshua Ben-Arieh, Moshe Davis

Overview

This fifth volume of the With Eyes Toward Zion series brings together 19 internationally renowned scholars to interpret how Jerusalem returbaned to the world stage in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The rediscovery of the Holy Land coincided with the greatest era of Christian missions and the birth of Zionism, and the face of Jerusalem began to change markedly. This volume explores those changes, looking at the influx of travelers and explorers to the Holy Land, and the evolving theological concepts among the various religious groups. This discussion of the rediscovery of the Holy Land delves into an issue that is at the forefront of current world discussion: the meaning of Jerusalem to Jews, Christians, and Muslims.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780275954055
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	03/30/1997
Series:	With Eyes Toward Zion
Pages:	296
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.10(d)
Lexile:	1470L (what's this?)

About the Author

YEHOSHUA BEN-ARIEH is Rector and Professor of Geography at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His books include Jerusalem in the 19th Century: The Old City (1984), Jerusalem in the 19th Century: The Emergence of the New City (1986), and Painting Palestine in the 19th Century (Hebrew-1992, English-forthcoming).

MOSHE DAVIS (1916-1996) was Founding Head of the Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Stephen S. Wise Professor Emeritus in American Jewish History and Institutions, as well as Academic Chairman of the International Center for University Teaching of Jewish Civilization under the aegis of the Israeli Presidency. He was Project Director and General Editor of American-Holy Land Studies. His publications include America and the Holy Land (Praeger, 1995) and University Teaching of Jewish Civilization: A Global Approach to Higher Education (1995).

Table of Contents

Introduction by Moshe Davis
In Comparative Perspective
The Meaning of Jerusalem to Jews, Christians, and Muslims by R. J. Zwi Werblowsky
Travelers, Explorers, and Opinion Makers
Jerusalem Travel Literature as Historical Source and Cultural Phenomenon by Yehoshua Ben-Arieh
Sacred Jourbaneys: Jerusalem in the Eyes of American Travelers before 1948 by David Klatzker
From London to Jerusalem: Jourbaneys of the Adler Brothers in the 1880s by Shaul Sapir
The Holy Land in Popular Brazilian Culture by Regina Igel
Religious Groups: Theological Concepts
"Beginning at Jerusalem": The Mission to the Jews and English Evangelical Eschatology by Sarah Kochav
Jerusalem in the Mind-Set of John Nelson Darby and his Fundamentalist Followers by Erich Geldbach
American Dispensationalists and Jerusalem, 1870-1918 by Yaakov Ariel
Religious Groups: Mission Activities
Origins of Western Christian Missions in Jerusalem and the Holy Land by Thomas Stransky
The German Catholic "Holy Sepulchre Society": Activities in Palestine by Haim Goren
Prussia and Jerusalem: Political and Religious Controversies Surrounding the Foundation of the Jerusalem Bishopric by Martin Lückhoff
German Missions in the Holy Land by Frank Foerster
Art and Photography
Cultural Predispositions in Early Photography: The Case of the Holy Land by Yeshayahu Nir
Selected Sectarian Postcards, Texts, and Snapshots of Jerusalem: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries by Vivienne Silver-Brody
Painting with Light: Photographic Aspects of the Work of Ephraim Mose Lilien by Micha and Orna Bar-Am
The Holy Land in the Sights of Explorers' Cameras by Shimon Gibson
Teaching Applications
Heavenly and Earthly Jerusalem: Pedagogical Perspectives by Gershon Greenberg
Index

Editorial Reviews

Seventeen contributions address Jerusalem's renewed position in the mindset of Western civilization in the 19th and early 20th centuries, as increasingly seen and felt by people of all countries who touched its ground for the first time. Arrangement is in six sections, covering comparative perspectives; travellers, explorers, and opinion makers; theological concepts; mission activities; art and photography; and teaching applications. The text is an outgrowth of a workshop on Western Societies and the Holy Land (1800-1948), conducted in Jerusalem in July 1990 and 1992. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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