Memoir and primary source by Wasif Jawhariyyeh, a renowned Jerusalemite musician and chronicler, edited by Issam Nassar and Salim Tamari, covering the author's life in the Old City from 1904 to 1948. Jawhariyyeh's account documents the rich cultural life, political upheavals, and social transformations of late Ottoman and British Mandate Jerusalem through the eyes of a Palestinian who moved across the city's religious and social communities as a musician and civil servant. The text is one of the most significant Palestinian primary sources on daily life in Jerusalem during this period. Essential for researchers working on Ottoman and Mandate Jerusalem, Palestinian social history, and Palestinian cultural life, as Jawhariyyeh's memoir provides an unmatched firsthand account of the city's musical culture, social networks, and transformation across six decades of imperial and colonial change. Translated from its original Arabic by Nada Elzeer.
