DR Yair Wallach's Outputs (2)

A City in Fragments: Urban Texts in Modern Jerusalem (2020)
Book
Wallach, Y. (2020). A City in Fragments: Urban Texts in Modern Jerusalem. Stanford University Press

In the mid-nineteenth century, Jerusalem was rich with urban texts inscribed in marble, gold, and cloth, investing holy sites with divine meaning. Ottoman modernization and British colonial rule transformed the city; new texts became a key means to o... Read More about A City in Fragments: Urban Texts in Modern Jerusalem.

Jerusalem's Lost Heart: The Rise and Fall of the Ottoman City Centre (2020)
Book Chapter
Wallach, Y. Jerusalem's Lost Heart: The Rise and Fall of the Ottoman City Centre. In N. Maksudyan, & H. Alkan (Eds.), Urban Neighbourhood Formations (138-158). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429288142-7

This chapter outlines the dramatic rise and fall of Jerusalem’s late Ottoman city centre, the physical destruction of which by British and Israeli planners was accompanied by its erasure from cultural memory. The cosmopolitan town centre around Jaffa... Read More about Jerusalem's Lost Heart: The Rise and Fall of the Ottoman City Centre.