Architectural Culture in British-Mandate Jerusalem, 1917-1948

Senior Lecturer (tenure-track) at Sapir Academic College / Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. She is co-editor (with Yael Allweil, Dana Gordon and Eran Tamir) of Timely Teaching: Educational Idealism and Modern Architecture (Architects House Gallery (Israel Association of United Architects), 2017) and (with Anat Geva) of Israel as A Modern Architectural Experimental Lab (forthcoming, published in association with the Society of Architectural Historians of the USA by Intellect Books). She is editor of Monuments and Site-Specific Sculpture in Urban and Rural Space (Cambridge Scholars Publishers, 2017).

• Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; List of Figures; Introduction; 1. A Holy City for the Twentieth Century: Urban Planning during the British Mandate; 2. Appropriating Multi-Histories: The Palestine Archaeological Museum; 3. Americans Imagining Jerusalem: The Jerusalem YMCA Building; 4. Constructing Palestinian Identity: The Palace Hotel; 5. Constructing Zionist Identity: The Zionist Executive Building; Conclusion: Buildings, communities; Bibliography.

This is that rare book that by closely examining a few buildings opens out onto some of the most complex and contested social dynamics of the twentieth century.　 It makes perfectly vivid that at seminal moments modern architecture was a primary arena wherein cultural, national, ethnic, technological and religious values competed.