Cats in Jerusalem

Jerusalem—an inside view. Funny and sad, real and incredible stories about the great city where the author has lived for “the third decade.”

“...And now I’d like—like in a film—to sharpen the focus on the same frame, to drive the camera right into the heart of the Temple Mount, and by turning on a blinding noon sun searchlight, to guide the lens around and along the borders of the Old City—Stargorod.

And let the camera first present the crazy anthill inside the labyrinth of stone walls of the Muslim Quarter, the boiling of dark blood in the narrow arteries of the Arab market, the twilight beneath the Gothic vaults of the Crusaders’ era, the roar and the scattering of the black-hatted crowd at the Western Wall—also called the Wall of Lamentation— the gathering of pilgrims in side alleys and on the squares of the Christian Quarter, the ascetic closedness of the Armenian Quarter…”

Dina Rubina