A City in Fragments
A City in Fragments In the mid-nineteenth century, Jerusalem was rich with urban texts inscribed in marble, gold, and cloth, investing holy sites with divine meaning. Stone inscriptions, pilgrims'…
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A City in Fragments
In the mid-nineteenth century, Jerusalem was rich with urban texts inscribed in marble, gold, and cloth, investing holy sites with divine meaning. Stone inscriptions, pilgrims' graffiti, and sacred banners gave way to street markers, shop signs, identity papers, and visiting cards that each sought to define and categorize urban space and people.A City in Fragments tells the modern history of a city overwhelmed by its religious and symbolic significance. Ottoman modernization and British colonial rule transformed the city; new texts became a key means to organize society and subjectivity.
As these urban texts became a tool in the service of capitalism, nationalism, and Yair Wallach walked the streets of Jerusalem to consider the graffiti, logos, inscriptions, official signs, and ephemera that transformed the city over the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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