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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

With a family pedigree and a sharp political eye, Simon Sebag Montefiore tries to get at the ‘truth’ of the complex city. When Simon Sebag Montefiore was writing his new history, “Jerusalem: The ...

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 ...

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 ...