A PALESTINE NOTEBOOK 1918-1923 Antique Hardcover book Doubleday 1923 C.R Ashbee

Description: A PALESTINE NOTEBOOK 1918-1923 Antique Hardcover book 1923Author: Published by Doubleday8vo. Original blue clothFirst US edition (first published in Britain in the same year by Heinemann) of these very rare and important Palestine memoirs. Ashbee was an architect, designer, and social reformer, who was initially based at the Guild of Handicraft in the East End of London in the 1880s, and then went on to help establish modern town planning in Jerusalem after the First World War. 'In the early summer of 1918 Ashbee was called from Cairo to Jerusalem by the military governor, Ronald Storrs, who asked him to write a report on the planning and repair of the city, which had just been captured by British forces from the Turks, and on the possibility of reviving traditional crafts and industries. It was an extraordinary opportunity, exactly suited to Ashbee's skills. He wrote a long and impressive report, and at the beginning of 1919 took up the non-governmental post of civic adviser in Jerusalem. His family moved to Palestine, and he set to work. It was as if he had been invited to repeat his life's work over again, but in the shadow of a longer and more troubled history, and under a stronger sun. Religious interests narrowed what could be done, but he cleared out and repaired the finest of the old market halls, the al-Qattanin souk, and started a weaving school there, brought in glass-blowers from Hebron and tile makers from Turkey and Armenia, drew up a development plan for the city as a whole, laid out gardens round the citadel, and began to repair the sixteenth-century walls of the old city, so that tourists could walk along the ramparts where Turkish guards had gone before. Much more might have been done, but Ashbee, uneasy working in any organization not his own and, though half Jewish, suspicious of the Zionists, resigned in March 1922 (ODNB).ContentsCHAPTER PAGE I A city of the mind1The confusion of war24An apocryphal fragment from the Third Book of Samuel41Islam and the Quaker50How it looked from England January and February 191961CollectFebruary 191978The optimism of victory and the passing of the soldiers82All the land needs Israel92THE CIVILIANS137CHAPTER PAGE XII ProJerusalem139Poetry prophecy and parasitism164Mafish Baraka189Political futilities219Administrative egg shells226The symbol of the dome of the rock237Aholiab and Bezaleel245What is Zionism?105Abbas the Bahai 16116The little city on a rock and the search for the new formula121Allah and the machines250Collect1923267 ‹ Popular passagesAs smoke is driven away, so drive them away: as wax melteth before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.‎ Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces. The men become every year more and more creatures of force, massed about central power-houses. The conflict is no longer between the men, but between the motors that drive the men, and the men tend to succumb to their own motive forces.‎The Lord gave the word; great was the company of those that published it. 12 Kings of armies did flee apace; and she that tarried at home divided the spoil. 13 Though ye have lien among the pots, yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.‎For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth.‎The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory. Let us contradict the blasphemy, and help to will our own better future and the better future of the world — not renounce our higher gift and say, ' Let us be as if we were not among the populations... We are lovers of beauty without extravagance, and lovers of wisdom without unmanliness. Wealth to us is not mere material for vainglory but an opportunity for achievement; and poverty we think it no disgrace to acknowledge but a real degradation to make no effort to overcome. All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together unto thee, the rams of Nebaioth shall minister unto thee : they shall come up with acceptance on mine altar, and I will glorify the house of my glory. I make known to you that every sacred building, monument, holy spot, shrine, traditional site, endowment, pious bequest, or customary place of prayer, of whatsoever form of the three religions, will be maintained and protected according to the existing customs and beliefs of those to whose faiths they are sacred.‎But God shall wound the head of his enemies, and the hairy scalp of such an one as goeth on still in his trespasses. continue in scarceness. 7 O God, when thou wentest forth before the people : when thou wentest through the wilderness, 8 The earth shook, and the heavens dropped at the presence of God : even as Sinai also was moved at the presence of God, who is the God of Israel.‎ Bibliographic informationTitleA Palestine Notebook, 1918-1923Author Charles Robert Ashbee PublisherDoubleday, Page, 1923Length278 pages

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