Martin Gilbert - The Routledge Historical Atlas of Jerusalem: Fourth edition

A FASCINATING HISTORY OF ONE OF THE WORLD'S GREAT CITIES

superbly produced and illustrated Mr Gilbert set out here to tell the story of Jerusalem in maps and pictures and, for me, he has succeeded admirably, with the touch of a poet.

Martin Sieff, Jerusalem Post

This is a book that should be acquired by every Jew, by all students of the Bible and by all politicians who want to know the facts before making up their minds how the future of the city should be settled.

Edwin Samuel, Jewish Chronicle

a first-class atlas of Jerusalem's history. The extensive maps are drawn with exceptional clarity and are accompanied by illustrations, prints and photographs, and of course the expert text of a meticulous historian. The maps themselves provide a remarkable visual aid in understanding the complexities of the tortuous history that has placed Jerusalem center-stage of religious and political conflict.

Susan Goodman, Jerusalem Post

The Routledge Historical Atlas of Jerusalem presents the history of a remarkable city, focal point of Jewish, Christian and Muslim sentiment and capital of the State of Israel, serving, despite conflict, as a flourishing, vibrant metropolis. In 69 maps and more than 100 prints and photographs, the atlas reveals the complete history of Jerusalem. It covers:

• Biblical Jerusalem the city as a centre of pilgrimage through the ages
• Imperial rule the impact of the Romans, Byzantines, Crusaders and Ottoman Turks
• Growth and idealism Jerusalem as a focal point of Jewish aspirations in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
• British Mandate Jerusalem the Holy Places, ArabJewish strife, urban growth and the emergence of a modern city
• Divided Jerusalem two separate cities and their reunification in 1967
• Conflict and hope Jerusalem in the twenty-first century

Sir Martin Gilbert is one of the leading historians of our time. An Honorary Fellow of Merton College Oxford, he is the official biographer of Winston Churchill and the author of eighty books, including Churchill: A Life, First World War, Second World War, Israel: a History, Jerusalem: Rebirth of a City and Jerusalem in the Twentieth Century.

BOOKS BY MARTIN GILBERT

The Routledge Atlas of American History
The Routledge Atlas of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
The Routledge Atlas of British History
The Routledge Atlas of the First World War
The Routledge Atlas of the Holocaust
The Routledge Atlas of Jewish History
The Routledge Atlas of Russian History

The Appeasers (with Richard Gott)
The European Powers, 19001945
The Roots of Appeasement
Children's Illustrated Bible Atlas
Atlas of British Charities
The Holocaust: Maps and Photographs
The Jews of Arab Lands: Their History in Maps
The Jews of Russia: Their History in Maps
Jerusalem Illustrated History Atlas
Sir Horace Rumbold: Portrait of a Diplomat
Jerusalem: Rebirth of a City
Jerusalem in the Twentieth Century

Exile and Return: The Struggle for Jewish Statehood

Israel: A History
Auschwitz and the Allies
The Jews of Hope: The Plight of Soviet Jewry Today
Shcharansky: Hero of Our Time
The Holocaust: The Jewish Tragedy
Kristallnacht: Prelude to Destruction
The Boys: Triumph over Adversity
The First World War
Somme: The Heroism and Horror of War

The Second World War
D-Day
The Day the War Ended
In Search of Churchill
Empires in Conflict: A History of the TwentiethCentury, 19001933
Descent into Barbarism: A History of the Twentieth Century, 19341951
Challenge to Civilization: A History of the Twentieth Century, 19521999
Never Again: A History of the Holocaust
The Jews in the Twentieth Century: An Illustrated History
Letters to Auntie Fori: The 5,000Year History of the Jewish People and Their Faith
The Righteous: The Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust
Churchill and America
Churchill and the Jews
The Will of the People: Churchill and Parliamentary Democracy

THE CHURCHILL BIOGRAPHY

Volume III: The Challenge of War, 19141916

Document Volume III (in two parts)

Volume IV: World in Torment, 19171922

Document Volume IV (in three parts)

Volume V: The Coming of War, 19221939

Document Volume V: The Exchequer Years, 19221929

Document Volume V: The Wilderness Years, 19291935

Document Volume V: The Coming of War, 19361939

Volume VI: Finest Hour, 19391941

Churchill War Papers I: At the Admiralty, September 1939May 1940

Churchill War Papers II: Never Surrender, MayDecember 1940

Churchill War Papers III: The Ever-Widening War, 1941

Volume VII: Road to Victory, 19411945

Volume VIII: Never Despair, 19451965

Churchill: A Photographic Portrait

Churchill: A Life

EDITIONS OF DOCUMENTS

Britain and Germany between the Wars

Plough My Own Furrow: The Life of Lord Allen of Hurtwood

Servant of India: Diaries of the Viceroy's Private Secretary, 19051910

Surviving the Holocaust: The Kovno Ghetto Diary of Avraham Tory Winston Churchill and Emery Reves: Correspondence 19371964

First published 1977 as Jerusalem Illustrated History Atlas
Macmillan Publishing Company, New York
Second edition published 1978
Third, revised edition published 1994
by Vallentine Mitchell and Co. Ltd.

Fourth edition published 2008 by Routledge
2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
by Routledge
270 Madison Ave, New York, NY
Reprinted 2008

Transferred to Digital Printing 2009

Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business

2008 Martin Gilbert

The right of Martin Gilbert to be identified as the Author of this Work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

The Routledge historical atlas of Jerusalem / Martin Gilbert. 4th ed.
p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

1. JerusalemMaps. 2. JerusalemHistoryMaps. I. Title.

G2239.J4G54 2008

ISBN10: 0-415-43343-6 (hbk)
ISBN10: 0-415-43344-4 (pbk)

ISBN13: 978-0-415-43343-3 (hbk)
ISBN13: 978-0-415-43344-0 (pbk)

In this Atlas, I trace the history of Jerusalem from biblical times to the present day. Each map is illustrated by a facing page of prints or photographs. The sixty-nine maps, taken together, are intended to provide a broad survey of Jerusalem's history, with special emphasis on the city's development during the last 150 years, when it grew from a remote, impoverished provincial town of the Ottoman Empire, with a population of fewer than 40,000, to a capital city with a population of more than three quarters of a million, of whom almost a third were Palestinian Arab Muslims.