Introduction - Jerusalem: History and Imagination - Oakland Campus

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Welcome to the library guide for Dr. Gordon's Jerusalem: History and Imagination class (JS 1160). This guide contains a list of major reference sources for your papers and projects, a page on databases, along with guidance on how to use them, important web sites, including relevant museums and links to digital projects , and a list of journals.

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Some Starting Points

Jerusalem and Its Environs by Ruth Kark and Michael Oren-Nordheim, editors
Call Number: Hillman Library - General Collection DS109.925 .K37 2001
This is an illustrated account of the urban and rural development of Jerusalem from the early 19th century when Ottoman Jerusalem was encompassed by its sixteenth century walls, and was divided into quarters and courtyard units of its various religious and ethnic groupings, to the end of the Mandate period in the mid 20th century. The seeds of the current situation in Jerusalem were sown at that time. It traces the city's interaction with its rural hinterland until the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948 when Jerusalem was divided into two-the Jewish quarter of the Old City and some Jewish neighborhoods and villages were occupied by Arabs, while Jews occupied a number of Arab neighborhoods and villages.
Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths by Karen Armstrong
Call Number: Hillman Library - General Collection DS109.9 A76 1996
With 8 pages of color photographs and 82 illustrations in text.

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Jerusalem: History and Imagination - Oakland Campus: Introduction