Yet, in firing the imagination, as Montefiore puts it, the city "has become the essential place on earth for the communication of God and man." William Shakespeare wrote of leaving "this troublous ...

For at least a decade, conventional wisdom in Western capitals has had it that “everyone knows” what the future of Jerusalem will be. A Palestinian state will encompass the West Bank, Gaza Strip and ...

Popular historian Montefiore (Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar) presents a panoramic narrative of Jerusalem, organized chronologically and delivered with magisterial flair. Spanning eras from King ...

Montefiore has been a bit of a warrior on the social media platform X during the Gaza war, but those hoping to find simple conclusions in the new edition of the book will be disappointed. Jerusalem ...

JERUSALEM: THE BIOGRAPHY By Simon Sebag Montefiore Knopf, $35, 688 pages, illustrated For much of the past 2,000 years, as Jewish families have gathered around the table for the annual Passover Seder, ...

Simon Sebag Montefiore’s epic survey of Jerusalem’s sanguinary history does not inspire confidence in the civilizing qualities of religion. The pile of corpses accumulated over millenniums from the ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Simon Sebag Montefiore is an Author with six videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2004 Booknotes. Most appearances with Brian Lamb (3). Most common ...

The multi-season project marks the first series for development for Lionsgate TV in the U.K. By Alex Ritman U.K. Correspondent Lionsgate Television U.K. has acquired rights to develop the critically ...

2012-01-01T11:02:04-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/70c/303145-m.jpgSimon Sebag Montefiore talked about his book on the 3,000 year history of Jerusalem. He ...

Some places live and breathe on at least two different planes: the physical and the notional. “New York” is more than pavement and politics, for instance. It’s also — particularly for those who will ...

Simon Sebag Montefiore's history of Jerusalem is an epic summary of the city's history told in chronological order. Jerusalem: The Biography is certainly splendidly written and meticulously researched ...