Jerusalem: Sacred City of Mankind - Teddy Kollek & Moshe Pearlman

Jerusalem, with a recorded history of some 4,000 years, has been more familiar to more people for a longer period than any other place on earth.

This is the site of the mystic hill-city which was founded in the third millennium BC. This is the `Urusalim which appears in pottery inscriptions at the beginning of the second millennium BC. This is the city of David, who unified the Land of Israel and proclaimed Jerusalem the capital in the tenth century BC. This is the city of Solomons Temple. This is the city where the prophets Isaiah and Jeremiah uttered thoughts which influenced the moral and religious attitudes of half the human race. This was the scene of Jesus last ministry, and here that he was crucified. This is the city also held holy by the Moslems, who believe that from here Mohammed ascended to heaven.

In its antiquity, its tumultuous past, its holiness, its monuments associated with the giant biblical figures of distant ages, in the sheer enchantment of its location and the colourful pattern of its daily life, Jerusalem is perhaps the most dramatic city in the world. This book captures that drama and flavour in its story of Jerusalem from earliest times to the present day right up to the re-unification of the city in the Six Day War of June 1967.

Teddy Kollek, one of the authors, became the first mayor of re-united Jerusalem and he still holds this historic office. Jerusalem is richly illustrated, in colour and black-and-white, with both ancient engravings and maps and magnificent photographs of the city and its holy places specially taken for this book.

With 64 plates in full-colour and more than 140 black and white illustrations