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Essayist and film critic Hoffman (House of Windows: Portraits from a Jerusalem Neighborhood) uncovers the architectural heritage of her adopted hometown of Jerusalem by studying the city's early 20th-century architectural figures. These include renowned German architect Erich Mendelsohn; British expatriate Austen St. Barbe Harrison, Palestine's chief architect in the 1920s and 1930s; and finally, a little-known albeit once important figure in Jerusalem—an architect named Spyro Houris, whose Greco-Moorish...Log In or Sign Up to Read More