List of Maps and Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Translators’ Note
Introduction: The Year 1900, the Age of Possibilities
Forgotten History
A Moment to Delineate, a Period to Define
The Causes of Failure
The Causes of Forgetting
Why Remember?
An Itinerary
1. The Underside of Maps: One City or Four Quarters?
A Rough-cut Cartography
External Boundaries, Internal Fractures
Language, Citizenship, Property: Some Useful Concepts
Inside and Outside City Walls
The Four Quarters: A Late and Exogenous Topography
The New City: Mixed Neighborhoods and Jewish Neighborhoods
Summary: Of People and Places
2. Origins of the City as Museum
Turning One’s Back on the Modern City
Lament over the Tomb-City
A City Becoming Unreadable
From Scholarship to Archaeology
Reconstructing Christ’s Jerusalem
Toward an Intimate History of Archaeology and Pilgrimage
Biblical Archaeology: “No Return” Inventions
3. Still-Undetermined Holy Sites
Maurice Halbwachs as Advance Scout
Localization and Designation
How to Construct a Holy Site: The Example of the Garden Tomb
Global and Structural Uncertainty
Original Hybridity
4. The Scale of the Empire
Ottomanism: A Defense against Fracturing Identities?
The Seraglio People: Imperial Administration in Jerusalem
Countering the Image of the “Turk’s Head”: A Gallery of Portraits
September 1, 1900: Imperial Jubilee in Jerusalem
The Road Network: A City Opened Up, a Region Ottomanized
The Railway: A Jewish Contractor, French Capital, and Muslim Inauguration
Ottomanism and Shared Urbanness: Drinking Water for All
5. The Municipal Revolution
Origin of the Municipality: An Urban Community?
Garbage Collection and the Municipalization of Urban Powers
Elected Council Members: Citizens, City Dwellers, and Property Owners
Yussuf Ziya al-Khalidi, the Founding Mayor
At the Heart of Municipal Action: The Defense of Public Space
Urbanites All? Public Health, Leisure, and Municipal Finances
6. The Wild Revolutionary Days of 1908
What Time Was It in Jerusalem?
The Wild Days of August 1908: Jerusalem’s Forgotten Revolution
Unexpected Fracture Lines
New Vectors of Lively Public Opinion
Underneath Communities, Classes?
7. Intersecting Identities
Albert Antébi, Levantine Urbanite
An “Arab Awakening” in the Chaos of Battle
Jerusalem and the Parochialism of the “People of the Holy Land”
Jerusalem, the Thrice-Holy City, and the Municipium
Conclusion: The Bifurcation of Time
The Bird People
Ben-Yehuda, the Outsider
Toward a Shared History
Notes
Bibliography
Index