Simon Sebag Montefiore read history at Cambridge University. His books have been published in more than thirty-five languages. Potemkin: Catherine the Great’s Imperial Partner was short-listed for the Samuel Johnson, Duff Cooper and Marsh Biography prizes in Britain. Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar was awarded the History Book of the Year Prize at the British Book Awards. Young Stalin won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography, the Costa Biography Award (U.K.), le Grand Prix de la biographie politique (France) and the Bruno Kreisky Prize for Political Literature (Austria). A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Montefiore lives in London with his wife, the novelist Santa Montefiore, and their two children.
Jerusalem is the universal city, the capital of two peoples, the shrine of three faiths; it is the prize of empires, the site of Judgement Day and the battlefield of today’s clash of civilizations. From King David to Barack Obama, from the birth of Judaism, Christianity and Islam to the Israel-Palestine conflict, this is the epic history of three thousand years of faith, slaughter, fanaticism and coexistence.
How did this small, remote town become the Holy City, the “center of the world” and now the key to peace in the Middle East? In a gripping narrative, Simon Sebag Montefiore reveals this ever-changing city in its many incarnations, bringing every epoch and character blazingly to life. Jerusalem’s biography is told through the wars, love affairs and revelations of the men and women—kings, empresses, prophets, poets, saints, conquerors and whores—who created, destroyed, chronicled and believed in Jerusalem. As well as the many ordinary Jerusalemites who have left their mark on the city, its cast varies from Solomon, Saladin and Suleiman the Magnificent to Cleopatra, Caligula and Churchill; from Abraham to Jesus and Muhammad; from the ancient world of Jezebel, Nebuchadnezzar, Herod and Nero to the modern times of the Kaiser, Disraeli, Mark Twain, Lincoln, Rasputin, Lawrence of Arabia and Moshe Dayan.
Drawing on new archives, current scholarship, his own family papers and a lifetime’s study, Montefiore illuminates the essence of sanctity and mysticism, identity and empire in a unique chronicle of the city that many believe will be the setting for the Apocalypse. This is how Jerusalem became Jerusalem, and the only city that exists twice—in heaven and on earth.
差评不是因为原著而是因为因为翻译太差了。一看就是导师挂名,底下研究生粗制滥造的成品。硬着头皮读下来。翻译的汉语毫无美感完全就是流水账。尽管如此,我对耶路撒冷还是充满向往。耶路撒冷的疯狂,有很大一部分不就是末日审判来临时,葬在圣殿山的首先复活的断言么?犹太人...
评分耶路撒冷的历史是整个世界的历史,它同时也是犹地亚山间一座长年贫瘠的小镇的编年史。耶路撒冷曾被视为世界的中心,而今它比以往任何时候都要名副其实:这座城市是亚伯拉罕系宗教之间斗争的焦点,是越来越受欢迎的基督教、犹太教和伊斯兰教基本教义派的圣地,是不同文明冲突的...
评分 评分《耶路撒冷三千年》[英]賽門•蒙提費歐里 上有天堂,下有耶路撒冷。 公元前15世纪左右,得到上帝(耶和华)的召唤,摩西带领被奴役的希伯来人,躲避埃及国王的残暴统治,前往上帝的应许之地。经过长达四十年的寻探,终找到了它——耶路撒冷。他们短暂地完全拥有过它,之后,...
评分这书,盛名之下,其实难读。 时间顺序记史,有点像资治通鉴。 不过读起来,没有资治通鉴有趣。 读到1200年时,便实在读不下去了。 完全是混乱的历史呀。 难以理解那种虔诚的宗教观。 满篇的欺诈与战争,血与泪…… 屠杀,屠杀,屠杀…… 建议作者出个精简版。对绝大多数来说,...
有意思的是,一次乘飞机,邻座的一个以色列大爷一度以为我在读Montefiore家族的传记。聊了会才知道这个家族在英国势力强大,非常富有。他们曾经在以色列建国的时候捐了一大笔钱,现在以色列依然有很多街道以家族姓氏命名
评分1. 开始还没有感觉,比较中立客观;看到后面,尤其近代开始,就很明显是犹太人写的。 2. 看的英文为主,中文为辅。译后记才发现是多人合译,难怪有些地方Nablus翻译成那不勒斯(囧),有些地方是纳布卢斯。 3. 看书之前,必须看一遍地图。 4. 书写的很好
评分没有看完,但很怀念书包里背着它,一起徜徉在耶路撒冷老城的时光。。
评分明年春节以色列行行前阅读。读了个开头,已经被公元前中东近东的血雨腥风来来去去搞得晕头转向了噗。//基本一个月的时间刷完。前三分之二非常精彩,漫漫历史长卷上人来人往,好不热闹。19世纪开始稍冗长无聊,幸好20世纪又精彩了起来。结合三千年历史,才能意识到1947年以色列建国这件事的重要性,而且远远不是必然,是各种时势与偶然因素的结合。阿拉伯人从一开始就各种内斗作死,作到20世纪把巴勒斯坦几乎作没了。另外一点是看起来20世纪初犹太和阿拉伯领袖基本都是温和派,越接近20世纪末极端势力越强大。
评分没有看完,但很怀念书包里背着它,一起徜徉在耶路撒冷老城的时光。。
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