jerusalem

""After years in exile, Iddo and his grandson Zechariah follow God's leading home to Jerusalem, where they struggle to rebuild their lives and God's temple--bringing to life the biblical books of Ezra and Nehemiah""--.

Explores the first crusades in Jerusalem, focusing on the influences of Melisende, the eldest daughter of the third Crusader king of Jerusalem, and her sisters, discussing her influence which reached as far as France and England.

History and geography lessons abound in this series about warriors and warrior cultures from the Middle Ages.

Draws from the disciplines of history and archaeology to examine aspects of daily life in and around Jerusalem at the time of Jesus.

An illustrated history of Jerusalem, covering a period that ranges over five thousand years, from before the city was established, to 2000.

Dunne describes three journeys to Jerusalem: the first, a pilgrimage of the mind; the second, a pilgrimage of the heart; and the third, a pilgrimage of the soul. Writing in an almost musical voice, he comes back over and over to themes developed in earlier chapters to orchestrate a most insightful story that ends with a discovery of the home of "the human spirit in a life larger than life." As with most of his books, the central issues are front and center: "Where do you come from?" and "Where are you going?" And he asks this of Jews, Muslims, and Christians in this city that is so sacred to these religions.

Fragile, exquisite Dina Reich was raised to be an obedient daughter, a dutiful wife. In modern Jerusalem, within the vigilant confines of the ultra-orthodox world of the Haredim, she is bound by the strictest letter of the law.

"Out of a fictional landscape informed by the Gulf War, the Los Angeles riots, the Holocaust, the back streets of Brooklyn and strife-torn Israel hurtles Rachel Kadish's first novel.".