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Summary: Indispensable guide in warm and witty style.
Review: Don't leave home without it! Certainly not without this book if your destination includes Jerusalem. Primarily for visitors, INTO THE HEART is THE indispensable possession for anyone moving to that historic city. Nellhaus covers all the usual bases plus ones only a resident would know about and does it all with such wit and humanity, it's hard not to close the cover and call your travel agent immediately.
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Summary: Indispensable guide in warm and witty style.
Review: Don't leave home without it! Certainly not without this book if your destination includes Jerusalem. Primarily for visitors, INTO THE HEART is THE indispensable possession for anyone moving to that historic city. Nellhaus covers all the usual bases plus ones only a resident would know about and does it all with such wit and humanity, it's hard not to close the cover and call your travel agent immediately.
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Summary: Don't Go to Israel Without This Book
Review: I carried this book everywhere in Jerusalem years ago. I'm so glad to see that it is still in print. It is an excellent, perhaps the most exceellent, tour of the city I have read.
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Summary: No heart at all
Review: Imagine you've lived in New York for a decade and so you decide you really know the place well enough to write a book - let's call it "Into the Heart of New York".Now let's imagine that as the author you decide to almost completely ignore the artistic, cultural, gastronomic, political, literary and musical contribution of New York's huge Jewish population. That should give you an idea of what the Arlynn Nellhaus
book "Into the Heart of Jerusalem" is like. Nellhaus is a keen far right wing supporter of Israel's illegal settlements in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and openly despises left wing Israelis who feel Israel should give up land for peace with the Palestinians. That same political contempt permeates this book which rather than delve into the heart of this beautiful, fascinating and divided city, gives a most superficial, polemic and disappointing picture that would leave any outsider ill informed. A reader might just wonder what contribution the city's quarter of a million Arabs make at all. That's probably what Nellhaus had in mind. Leave this one in the bargain bin.
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Summary: Into the Heart of Jerusalem
Review: This book realy presented to me a new way of looking at jerusalem . It was entirely enjoyable and you will want to have this book if you plan on coming to Israel any time soon.
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