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O Jerusalem

By Michael R. Shurkin

Jerusalem in Original Photographs 1850–1920

Shimon Gibson
(Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 2003) 204 pp., $44.50

This attractive new volume joins dozens of late-19th and early-20th century photographs of Jerusalem with a commentary drawn from contemporary travelogues and letters, many of them cited at length. The effect is to convey in considerable detail the sights and sounds of Ottoman Jerusalem. We find, for example, the following description of a visit to the Al-Aqsa Mosque:

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