Jerusalem 1913, Amy Dockser Marcus
Jerusalem 1913, Amy Dockser Marcus
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Jerusalem 1913
The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict

Author: Amy Dockser Marcus

Narrator: Joyce Bean

Unabridged: 6 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/15/2007


Synopsis

Searching for the origins of the Arab-Israeli conflict, historians for years focused on the British Mandate period (1920-1948). Amy Dockser Marcus, however, demonstrates that the bloody struggle for power actually started much earlier, when Jerusalem was still part of the Ottoman Empire and the rise of Zionism and Arab nationalism laid the groundwork for the battles that would continue to rage nearly a century later.

Nineteen thirteen was the crucial year for these conflicts—the year that the Palestinians held the First Arab Congress and the first time that secret peace talks were held between Zionists and Palestinians. World War I, however, interrupted these peace efforts.

Dockser Marcus traces these dramatic times through the lives of a handful of the city's leading citizens as they struggle to survive. A current events must read in our ongoing efforts to understand the Arab-Israeli conflict.

About Amy Dockser Marcus

Amy Dockser Marcus is a reporter for the Wall Street Journal who was based in Israel as the paper's Middle East correspondent from 1991 to 1998. She was awarded the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting. She lives in Massachusetts.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Bagus on March 07, 2024

Partly a travelogue, partly a history book, Jerusalem 1913 attempts to retrace the origins of the Arab-Israeli conflict through the lens of Amy Dockser Marcus as she visited Jerusalem between 2004 and 2006. She tried to challenge the common notion about the origins of the conflict that traces it bac......more

Goodreads review by Elliot on July 21, 2011

Until 1919, Israel-Palestine was under the control of the Ottoman Empire. Jerusalem was a multicultural city where Jews, Christians and Muslims lived, for the last time, in neighborliness and harmony. This short book, by an award-winning journalist, paints an unfamiliar picture of Jewish-Arab cooper......more

Goodreads review by Jack on March 19, 2021

3.5 stars While this is a good book I have to admit that is was not the best for keeping my interest throughout. Some parts are extremely solid and entertaining, while giving me a better understanding of the topic at hand. While other parts of the book just lost my attention. Espially as I came to th......more

Goodreads review by Felix on July 05, 2017

The writing is good and evocative (which is no less than one would expect from a Pulitzer Prize winner) but there is very little substance. The book is (as I found out much much later) part of a series in the format "CityName Year" which deals with momentous events localized in time and space (like......more

Goodreads review by Tim on January 08, 2009

The Israel/Palestine argument so often gets obscured by people who are completely ignorant of the history of the region prior to the 1940s (as I was prior to reading this book). Jerusalem 1913 provides a detailed account of life in the waning hours of the Ottoman Empire through the major thrust of Z......more