ISBN:
9781510724907
Language:
English
Year of publication:
2018
Abstract:
" A memoir of a year spent in the Old City in the heart of today's Jerusalem...a quirky, novelistic tour. 8212 Kirkus Reviews On a night in 1999 when Sarah Tuttle-Singer was barely eighteen, she was stoned by Palestinian kids just outside one of the gates to the Old City of Jerusalem. In the years that followed, she was terrified to explore the ancient city she so loved. But, sick of living in fear, she has now chosen to live within the Old City's walls, living in each of the four quarters: Christian, Muslim, Armenian, and Jewish. Jerusalem's Old City is the hottest piece of spiritual real estate in the world. For millennia empires have clashed and crumbled over this place. Today, the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians plays out daily in her streets, and the ancient stones run with blood. But it's also an ordinary city, where people buy vegetables and soothe colicky babies, where pipes break, where the pious get high, and young couples sneak away to kiss in the shadows. Sarah has thrown herself into the maelstrom of living in each quarter8212 where time is measured in Sabbath sunsets and morning bells and calls to prayer, in stabbing attacks and checkpoints8212 keeping the holidays in each quarter, buying bread from the same bread seller, making friends with people who were once her enemies, and learning some of the secrets and sharing the stories that make Jerusalem so special, and so exquisitely ordinary. Jerusalem, Drawn and Quartered is a book for anyone who's wondered who really lives in Israel, and how they coexist. It's a book that skillfully weaves the personal and political, the heartwarming and the heart-stopping. It's a book that only Sarah Tuttle-Singer can write. The Old City of Jerusalem may be set in stone, but it's always changing8212 and these pages capture that."
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Biographisches: "Sarah Tuttle-Singer is a widely-read writer for Time, Kveller, and Times of Israel and the new media editor at Times of Israel, the largest online newspaper covering the Jewish world. She is an LA expat currently growing roots in Israel, where she lives with her two children. She speaks internationally and recently received a prestigious ROI fellowship grant from the Schusterman Foundation. She lives in Jerusalem, Israel." Rezension(2): "〈a href=http://www.kirkusreviews.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/kirkus_logo.png alt=Kirkus border=0 /〉〈/a〉: April 15, 2018 A memoir of a year spent in the Old City in the heart of today's Jerusalem.Tuttle-Singer, the new media editor at the Times of Israel, was enraptured with life in Jerusalem ever since her first youthful visit, and she remains in love with the Holy Land as a grown-up Israeli now living again in the ancient city. During the year she chronicles, the author lived part of each week on a communal moshav with her two young children. The rest of the week, she lived in the various quarters of the Old City, where the disparate Christian, Muslim, and Jewish cultures are encapsulated in one small spot on a map. On the days I'm not with my kids, she writes, I'm in the Old City, because it's one thing to understand this place through the thoroughfares, and it's quite another to go behind the walls and see what's hidden, what doesn't meet the eye. Tuttle-Singer enjoyed views from the city's rooftops, watched Arab elders play backgammon, and danced with bar mitzvah celebrants. She delighted in such things as the amazing chicken-and-rice dish called maklouba and the wide variety of odors wafting through the city. She was friendly with merchants and became a confidante of many candid residents of the walled district. It wasn't all charm and understanding, though. There were the nervous young soldiers carrying rifles and demonstrators throwing rocks. When she was 18, the author was stoned by Palestinian kids. During her youth in Los Angeles, she lost her mother, who now haunts her daughter's impassioned memoir, which tends toward the operatic. Certain descriptive passages of the sounds and sights may be a bit rich for some readers, but Tuttle-Singer's approachable personality will prevail for a good many more.A quirky, novelistic tour as much about the author as Jerusalem. COPYRIGHT(2018) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. "
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