TILL WE HAVE BUILT JERUSALEM: ARCHITECTS OF A NEW CITY
Book ID/图书代码： 09320015B82241
English Summary/英文概要： Equal parts biographical puzzle, architectural meditation, and probing detective hunt, Adina Hoffman’s Till We Have Built Jerusalem offers a prismatic view onto one of the world’s most beloved and troubled cities. Panoramic yet intimate, this portrait of three architects who helped build modern Jerusalem is also a gripping exploration of the ways in which politics and aesthetics clash in a place of constant conflict.
The book opens with the arrival in 1930s Jerusalem of the celebrated Berlin architect Erich Mendelsohn who, as a refugee from Hitler’s Germany, has to reckon with a complex new Middle Eastern reality. Next we meet Austen St. Barbe Harrison, Palestine’s chief government architect from 1922-1937. Steeped in the traditions of Byzantine and Islamic building, he’s forced to work in the often stifling and violent context of British rule. And in the riveting final section, Hoffman herself sets out through the battered streets of today’s Jerusalem looking for traces of a possibly Greek, possibly Arab architect named Spyro Houris. Once renowned around town, Houris is now utterly forgotten, though his buildings still stand, a ghostly testimony to his presence.
A beautifully written rumination on memory and forgetting, place and displacement, Till We Have Built Jerusalem uncovers ramifying levels of one great city’s buried history as it asks what it means, everywhere, to be foreign and to belong.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： Adina Hoffman的《直到我们建起了耶路撒冷》为读者呈现出这座世界上最受人钟爱，也是最混乱的城市多姿多彩的一面。对三位曾经帮助建造现代耶路撒冷的建筑师的描写，深入探索了政治与美学在这个是非之地的碰撞。
翻开本书，我们首先会读到19世纪30年代，知名柏林建筑师Erich Mendelsohn以难民的身份来到了耶路撒冷，面对复杂的新中东现实。然后，在1922年至1937年间，巴勒斯坦首席政府建筑师Austen St. Barbe Harrison登场。沉浸在拜占庭和伊斯兰建筑传统之中的他不得不在英国令人窒息的暴力统治下工作。在最后的部分，作者亲自走上耶路撒冷破败的街巷，寻找一位名叫Spyro Houris的可能是希腊也可能是阿拉伯的建筑师留下的踪迹。这位建筑师曾经红极一时，但现在已经被彻底遗忘，但他的建筑作品仍然矗立在街头证明他曾经的存在……（LYR）
Awards/获奖情况：“本书文笔优美……不仅是一部伟人传记；还重新发掘了被记忆所遗忘的历史。”——Eric Ormsby，《泰晤士报文学增刊》
“（一部）出色的专辑……一项非凡的成就。”——Pankaj Mishra，《纽约书评》
"Beautifully written . . . [This] is not only the biography of a remarkable man; it is an act of reclamation against the erosions of memory." --Eric Ormsby, Times Literary Supplement
"[A] superb biography . . . a remarkable achievement." --Pankaj Mishra, The New York Review of Books
About the Author/作者介绍： Adina Hoffman著有《有窗的房子：耶路撒冷社区面面观》《我的幸福与幸福无关：一个诗人在巴勒斯坦的生活》，英国2010年《犹太人季刊》奖项得主，古根海姆奖学金获得者，2013年被授予Windham Campbell奖。与Peter Cole合著的《神圣的垃圾：开罗Geniza遗失又被寻回的世界》被列为美国图书馆协会年度犹太人图书。现在的她一半时间在耶路撒冷，一半时间在纽黑文。
Adina Hoffman is the author of House of Windows: Portraits from a Jerusalem Neighborhood and My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet’s Life in the Palestinian Century, winner of the UK’s 2010 Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize. She is also the author, with Peter Cole, of Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza, which was named the American Library Association’s Jewish Book of the Year. The recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, she was awarded one of the inaugural (2013) Windham Campbell prizes. She divides her time between Jerusalem and New Haven.
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