Description: "Jerusalem has had many chroniclers, but Benvenisti is the city's leading living author. This is the one book that provides a history of the city at once knowing, unsentimental, yet evocative of the grace of that city. A book of great quality, a book of rare integrity."--Fouad Ajami, author of "The Arab Predicament"
Review Quotes: "Benvenisti brings . . . a rare attachment and authority. He seems familiar with every rock, every problem, every denizen, and he ranges with engrossing ease between yesterday and biblical times."--Serge Schmemann, "New York Times Book Review