Options for the administration of the holy places in the Old City of Jerusalem

2017 ◽  
pp. 3-24
Author(s):  
Reiter Yitzhak
Keyword(s):  
Old City ◽  
Holy Places

The Vatican, Palestinian Christians, Israel, and Jerusalem: Religion, Politics, Diplomacy, and Holy Places, 1945–1950

2000 ◽  
Vol 36 ◽  
pp. 358-372 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony O’Mahony
Keyword(s):  
Social Transformation ◽  
Muslim Community ◽  
Christian Community ◽  
History Match ◽  
Western Sector ◽  
Old City ◽  
Holy Places ◽  
The City ◽  
Christian Population ◽  
Israeli Occupation

The years 1945–9 were a time of profound political and social transformation for Palestine. Few other periods in its history match these changes, which left no community unaffected. The overwhelming Palestinian-Arab Christian and Muslim community was reduced from a majority to a minority, subject to the rule of a staunchly nationalistic Jewish and Zionist state. The events of 1948–9 were particularly devastating. A large number of Palestinians became refugees, including approximately fifty to seventy per cent of the Palestinian Christian population. Nearly half of the Christian community of Jerusalem had lived and had their businesses in the more modern and developed western sector of the city until Israeli occupation; their property was sequestered after they fled or were compelled to leave. Most of them were forced to seek refuge in the Old City, in monasteries and other Church buildings. Many others were forced to flee elsewhere, some leaving the former Mandate territory altogether.

Jerusalem's Hope Lies Only in Partition: Israeli Policy on the Jerusalem Question, 1948–67

1999 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 577-604 ◽  
Author(s):  
Motti Golani
Keyword(s):  
Old City ◽  
Holy Places ◽  
The Difference

In June 1937, David Ben-Gurion explained to one of the leaders of American Zionism why he thought it was right to divide Jerusalem: “England (and we) need control over the holy places—that is, the Old City. [But] ruling over Rehavia [a neighborhood in the city's western part] adds nothing [to Britain], whereas for the Jews, the millions of the Jews who do not know the difference between the Sharon and the [Jezre'el] Valley [or the difference between Rehavia and the Old City] … —the name Jerusalem means everything.”

scholarly journals War on Sacred Grounds

2011 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-138
Author(s):  
Ben Ami Naama
Keyword(s):  
Sacred Spaces ◽  
Old City ◽  
Holy Places ◽  
Security Checks

Holy places have frequently been the focus of religious and political conflict.Ron E. Hassner analyzes the causes, the course, and the outcomes ofsuch conflicts. His prologue, “A Terrifying and Fascinating Mystery,” isan account of his visit to Jerusalem’s Old City, which the three revealedfaiths share. The reader is made acquainted with the city’s human and linguisticdiversity, the narrow alleys, the smells of the bazaar, the monumentalbuildings, the security checks, and the risks and hardships that visitorsmay face.The first of the book’s nine chapters is an introduction. The remainingeight are divided into two parts: part 1 is “Understanding Conflictsover Sacred Spaces,” while part 2 deals with “Managing Conflicts over SacredSpaces.” Each part consists of four chapters. Photographs are mostlyplaced between the chapters. The book ends with acknowledgments, followedby notes with references and clarifications, and an index of terms,people, and places ...

The Old City of Hebron: Can It be Saved?

1994 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 69-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Sellick
Keyword(s):  
Old City

SOURCE-HISTORIOGRAPHICAL STUDY OF THE EXISTENCE OF THE SECOND KOSTROMA KREMLIN (Article 2)

2020 ◽  
pp. 10-35
Author(s):  
Sergey A. Kabatov ◽  
Yelena A. Kabatova
Keyword(s):  
Urban Settlement ◽  
Archaeological Data ◽  
Old City ◽  
Storage Location ◽  
Shed Light

The question of dating an urban settlement, if its date has no clear or specific written confirmation, is always very problematic and complicated. Its solution requires the use of the widest possible range of data. This research is presented in a block of articles that attempt to cover the source-historiographical study of the existence of the second Kostroma Kremlin, including the latest archaeological data from 2016-2017 on the territory of the Old city of the second Kostroma Kremlin. The study raises questions about the conditions, specifics and dating of the foundation of the first and second Kostroma Kremlins, their nature of development, the conditions for obtaining the icon Our Lady of Saint Theodore in Kostroma and its storage location in both Kremlins. The question of the place, time and conditions of the construction of the Assumption Cathedral is considered separately, since only research on the conditions and dating of its construction can shed light on the date of the foundation of the Old city of the second Kostroma Kremlin. Article 2 continues this block of research, which refers us to the time and conditions of building the Dormition Cathedral.

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