Título: Jerusalem: city of the book
Autores: Merav Mack e Benjamin Balint
Mês: Maio
Tema: Letra J
Editora Yale University Press, 272p.
Sinopse: A captivating journey through the hidden libraries of Jerusalem,
where some of the world’s most enduring ideas were put into words.
In this enthralling book, Merav Mack and Benjamin Balint explore
Jerusalem’s libraries to tell the story of this city as a place where some of
the world’s most enduring ideas were put into words. The writers of Jerusalem,
although renowned the world over, are not usually thought of as a distinct
school; their stories as Jerusalemites have never before been woven into a
single narrative. Nor have the stories of the custodians, past and present, who
safeguard Jerusalem’s literary legacies.
By showing how Jerusalem has been imagined by its writers and shelved by
its librarians, Mack and Balint tell the untold history of how the peoples of
the book have populated the city with texts. In their hands, Jerusalem
itself—perched between East and West, antiquity and modernity, violence and
piety—comes alive as a kind of labyrinthine library.
Esse livro é excelente! Queria muito que fosse traduzido, porque apesar
de saber inglês, tive dificuldade com certas palavras. Os autores fazem um
verdadeiro trajeto histórico das bibliotecas em Jerusalém. Uma das melhores
partes é o capítulo que fala sobre os roubos e desaparecimentos de livros e
manuscritos. Outra coisa que chama atenção é o fato de negarem acesso a certos
locais e escritos mesmo para acadêmicos de renome.
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