Dana Hercbergs’ Overlooking the Border is a study of popular narratives on Jerusalem, based on the fieldwork she did in the city between 2007-2008 and 2014-2016. More precisely, she deals with stories told by contemporary Jerusalemites—both Israeli Jews and Palestinians, who come from a variety of socioeconomic backgrounds. Enriched with maps and photographs, the well-written text moves between past and present as the narrators recount their everyday life experiences, inevitably touching upon the ways their lives are influenced by political and social realities. Hercbergs does not limit her sources to informants and storytellers, or to interviews, guided tours, or a visit to a family living in the Shu’afat refugee camp. She also rightly considers material expressions such as street plaques, posters, architectural projects, a permanent photography exhibit of family portraits and street scenes in West Jerusalem, and the Palestinian Heritage Museum. The border that the book discusses is multidimensional: social, physical, ethnic, and national....
Failure to Show the Presence of a Chromaffin System of Cells in the Human Skin**From the Departments of Dermatology of Wayne State University and Receiving Hospital of the City of Detroit (Hermann Pinkus, MD., Chairman), Detroit, Michigan.Supported in part by the Research and Development Division, Office of the Surgeon General, Department of the Army, under Contract DA-49-007-MD-584, and in part by research grant RG-4435 from the National Institutes of Health, U.S. Public Health Service.