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Free Download DK Travel, "DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Jerusalem, Israel, Petra & Sinai"
English | 2014 | pages: 330 | ISBN: 1465412131, 1409329879 | PDF | 57,4 mb
DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Jerusalem, Israel, Petra, and Sinai will lead you straight to the best attractions the country has to offer, from the green hills and sun-drenched coast of Galilee to the sacred sites of Jerusalem’s Old City, and from the dramatic desert of Wadi Rum to the vibrant reefs of Dahab.

Free Download DK Travel, "DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Jerusalem, Israel, Petra & Sinai"
English | 2014 | pages: 330 | ISBN: 1465412131, 1409329879 | PDF | 57,4 mb
DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Jerusalem, Israel, Petra, and Sinai will lead you straight to the best attractions the country has to offer, from the green hills and sun-drenched coast of Galilee to the sacred sites of Jerusalem’s Old City, and from the dramatic desert of Wadi Rum to the vibrant reefs of Dahab.

Free Download Fighting for Jerusalem: The History of the Most Important Battles and Sieges for Control of the World’s Holiest City (Audiobook)
English | ISBN: 9798868758324 | 2023 | 4 hours and 9 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 231 MB
Author: Charles River Editors
Narrator: Bill Caufield
When Israel captured East Jerusalem during the Six Day War in 1967, it established Jewish control over the city for the first time in nearly 2,000 years, and in many ways it brought a story full circle, as Jerusalem has witnessed some of history’s most important battles over the past 3,000 years. Over 2,500 years before the Six Day War, the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II oversaw the expansion of the Neo-Babylonian Empire during the 7th and 6th centuries BCE, which placed him in conflict with Egypt and the ancient kingdom of Judah. His ruthless conquest of Judah resulted in the destruction of Jerusalem and the entire kingdom, and it ultimately earned him notoriety in the Old Testament, where he is mentioned in the books of Jeremiah, Ezekiel and Daniel. The Assyrians also exiled the Jews. The Siege of Jerusalem in 70 CE is arguably the most important event in Jewish history. First, it was the central battle in the First Jewish-Roman war. Second, the failure of the siege on the Jewish side resulted in the destruction of the Second Temple of Jerusalem, a disaster that would eventually prove both permanent and catastrophic, since it was never rebuilt.

Free Download Valentina Carraro, "Jerusalem Online: Critical Cartography for the Digital Age"
English | 2021 | ISBN: 9811633169, 9811633134 | PDF | pages: 137 | 2.8 mb
The book addresses the rapid shifts which have taken place within cartography, and argues that no amount of technological sophistication will lead to neutral representations, and that as such critical cartography provides a solid foundation for questioning the power of maps. It considers the fragmentation, dynamism and opacity that characterise online maps, and argues for the need of new ways of thinking and researching maps. The book offers an approach grounded in ‘ontological’ social theory and feminist technoscience, and illustrates it through the analysis of three Jerusalem-related mapping controversies. Using online media, historical maps and ethnographic work, each case study explores a different map provider and a recent mapping development: Google Maps and the distributed authorship of web-maps; Waze and algorithmic navigation; OpenStreetMap and crowdsourcing. The book is a key read to faculty and advanced students in Urban Studies and Critical Cartography. It will particularly appeal to those working in the digital geographies

Free Download Palestine Memories of 1948: Photographs of Jerusalem by Chris Conti, Altair Alcantra, Isabelle Lavigne
English | February 28, 2020 | ISBN: 1843916568 | 256 pages | MOBI | 26 Mb
Seventy-one years ago, in 1948, the Nakba-the "catastrophe"-overturned life in Palestine, forcing three-quarters of Palestinians into exile, depriving them of their land, their homes, their belongings. Today, those who can bear witness to that period are becoming rare. From different social backgrounds, 19 men and women remember the coexistence that prevailed in Palestine, the war, the exile, as well as the strength and resilience which they had to muster to adapt to new realities. Life stories expressed in the first person are accompanied by black and white portraits where each look questions the coming generations. For every Palestinian, Jerusalem is charged with symbolic meaning, of identity and of remembrance, the more so because it has become inaccessible to most. The city is made the focus of a compilation of color photographs presented for a contemporary look, between shadow and light.

Free Download Kenrick H. Burgess, "Jerusalem Gates"
English | ISBN: 1595559205 | 2019 | 148 pages | EPUB, PDF | 4 MB + 3 MB
Jerusalem is no ordinary place. It is a symbolic city. David, the most revered king of Israel, captured the city and established it as the capital of Israel approximately 3000 years ago. His son King Solomon built the glorious and first temple in the city. The preservation and focus of Jerusalem through centuries past to the present are not accidents. God has kept Jerusalem throughout many wars and battles. Jerusalem is the city that God has chosen for Himself to put His name.

Free Download View of the Hebrews: Exhibiting the Destruction of Jerusalem; The Certain Restoration of Judah and Israel; The Present State of Judah and Israel; And an Address of the Prophet Isaiah Relative to Their Restoration
by Ethan Smith
English | 2021 | ISBN: 1396322221 | 130 Pages | ePUB | 0.27 MB

Free Download Nine Quarters of Jerusalem: A New Biography of the Old City by Matthew Teller
English | September 27, 2022 | ISBN: 1635423341 | 400 pages | PDF | 41 Mb
This unique, absorbing biography of Jerusalem brings to light its overlooked histories and diverse contemporary voices.
In Jerusalem, what you see and what is true are two different things. The Old City has never had "four quarters" as its maps proclaim. And beyond the crush and frenzy of its major religious sites, many of its quarters are little known to visitors, its people ignored and their stories untold. Nine Quarters of Jerusalem lets the communities of the Old City speak for themselves. Ranging from ancient past to political present, it evokes the city’s depth and cultural diversity.
Matthew Teller’s highly original "biography" features the Old City’s Palestinian and Jewish communities, but also spotlights its Indian and African populations, its Greek and Armenian and Syriac cultures, its downtrodden Dom Gypsy families, and its Sufi mystics. It discusses the sources of Jerusalem’s holiness and the ideas-often startlingly secular-that have shaped lives within its walls. It is an evocation of place through story, led by the voices of Jerusalemites.

Free Download Dore Gold, Nadia May (Narrator), "The Fight for Jerusalem: Radical Islam, the West, and the Future of the Holy City"
English | ASIN: B000MRNU6M | 2007 | M4B@64 kbps | ~10:36:00 | 310 MB
April 13, 2006. A Jerusalem Post headline reads: "Jericho man murdered over home sale." The 42 year-old father of eight was kidnapped, shot seven times, thrown into his car, and set on fire, because he had sold his Jerusalem apartment to Jews.
Radical Islam has long desired to seize Jerusalem and make it off limits to Christian and Jewish believers. In this revealing book, Dore Gold, best-selling author and former Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, reminds us that the war on terror is also a war on faith. Gold argues that only an Israeli-controlled Jerusalem can preserve the city’s freedom and its openness to people of all faiths. Referring to recent archaeological discoveries, he suggests that uncovering Jerusalem’s past and the truth of biblical history can be the key to saving its future.

Free Download Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths by Karen Armstrong, Lisa Armytage, Random House Audio
English | 2020 | ISBN: B08CFNNXR8 | Format: MP3 / 21 hours and 53 minutes | 599 Mb
"Splendid… Eminently sane and patient… Essential reading for Jews, Christians, and Muslims alike." (The Washington Post)
Venerated for millennia by three faiths, torn by irreconcilable conflict, conquered, rebuilt, and mourned for again and again, Jerusalem is a sacred city whose very sacredness has engendered terrible tragedy. In this fascinating volume, Karen Armstrong, author of the highly praised A History of God, traces the history of how Jews, Christians, and Muslims have all laid claim to Jerusalem as their holy place, and how three radically different concepts of holiness have shaped and scarred the city for thousands of years.
Armstrong unfolds a complex story of spiritual upheaval and political transformation – from King David’s capital to an administrative outpost of the Roman Empire, from the cosmopolitan city sanctified by Christ to the spiritual center conquered and glorified by Muslims, from the gleaming prize of European Crusaders to the bullet-ridden symbol of the present-day Arab-Israeli conflict.