Mandate Sacred Architecture
Continuation of the Concept of Jerusalem as a Microcosm Following the idyllic period of the early British Mandate, troubles emerged. Unrest began as early as the 1921 riots, though these…
Spiritual Archeology
What Were the Archaeologists Looking For? On November 28th, 1947, the day before the UN Partition Plan resolution—which essentially guaranteed the establishment of the Jewish state and led to the…
New Muslim Jerusalem
Jordanian Muslim Jerusalem The Jordanian army took control of the Old City in 1948, which led to the expulsion of the Jewish population from the Jewish Quarter. At the end…
Books
Professor Yehoshua Ben-Arieh began his research career in the History Branch of the Israel Defense Forces following the War of Independence and played a central role in the study and…
Indian Spirituality in Jerusalem
Indian Spirituality in Jerusalem India is rightly considered the land of spirituality: a place of yogis, fakirs, monks, monasteries, temples, and religious cults. It is a place where religion is…
Tripartite Peace Plan
Yehoshua Attempts to Promote a Peace Plan From His Autobiographical Memoirs After retiring from my permanent position at the university in 2000, I began developing an idea for advancing a…
Jerusalem in the 19th Century
the two books on Jerusalem in the 19th century are a groundbreaking work by Professor Yehoshua Ben-Arieh, written in the late 1970s, in which he reconstructs the landscape of Jerusalem…