JERUSALEM

JERUSALEM By : Richard Gottheil Gotthard Deutsch Martin A. Meyer Joseph Jacobs M. Franco

ARTICLE HEADINGS:

• —Ancient:
• The Name.
• In the El-Amarna Tablets.
• Resists the Israelites.
• Situation of Zion.
• City of David.
• Improvements by Solomon.
• As Capital of Judah.
• Water-Supply.
• Taken by Nebuchadnezzar.
• Rebuilt 537-516 B.C.
• The Night Ride of Nehemiah.
• The Gates.
• Seized by the Persians.
• Under the Seleucids.
• Described by Aristeas and Hecatæus.
• Recaptured by Judas Maccabeus.
• Captured by Pompey.
• Buildings of Herod.
• Growth of Northern Suburb.
• Jerusalem Before the Fall.
• The Walls.
• Destruction of the City (70).
• Under the Christian Emperors.
• Rabbinic References.
• Synagogues and Schools.
• Old Customs.
• Under the Arabs.
• During the Crusades.
• Medieval Jewish Visitors.
• NaHmanides in Jerusalem.
• Ashkenazim and Sephardim.
• Meshullam of Volterra.
• Effect of Expulsion from Spain.
• Takkanot.
• Jacob Berab and Ibn Habib.
• Solomon al-Gazi's Description.
• In the Eighteenth Century.
• Taxation and Income.
• In the Nineteenth Century.
• Albert Cohn and Ludwig Frankl.
• Further Benefactions.
• Spread of Modern Jerusalem.
• Customs of Jerusalem Jews.
• Remains and Inscriptions.
• Tombs.

—Modern:

• Divisions.
• Weather and Water.
• Population.
• Jews of Jerusalem.
• Occupations.
• Institutions.
• Synagogues and Yeshibot.

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