Jerusalem - Die Geschichte einer Stadt - Buchpremiere

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In this lively and historically accurate graphic novel, historian Vincent Lemire tells the four-thousand-year history of the Holy City, which leaves us both astonished and troubled. He has been working on the subject for 25 years and talks to publisher Edmund Jacoby and Christian Wollin, long-time Fellow at the University of Jerusalem, about the creation of his fascinating graphic novel.

4,000 years ago, Jerusalem was a small, isolated settlement on a mountain ridge between the Mediterranean and the desert. Today, it is a metropolis with almost a million inhabitants that attracts attention and visitors from all over the world.

Monotheism was invented here. It was here that the greatest conquerors conquered the city and the greatest empires fought each other. Jerusalem has alternately been Egyptian, Persian, Jewish, Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Arab, Crusader, Mamluk, Ottoman, English, Jordanian, Palestinian and Israeli and has been at the center of the world's interests and passions. As the cradle of Judaism and Christianity and the holy city of Islam, it is today a spiritual center for more than half of humanity.

Vincent Lemire, born in 1973, is a historian and long-time director of the French Research Center in Jerusalem (CRFJ). He is a lecturer at the University of Marne-La-Vallée and director of the European project Open-Jerusalem, which is funded by the European Research Council. He is the author of several standard works on the Holy City.

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