Refugees, business cards and the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem with Maria Chiara Rioli

In this episode Maria Chiara Rioli, author of the wonderful work A Liminal Church, Refugees, Conversions and the Latin Diocese of Jerusalem 1946-1956 (Brill), tells us about her personal path that brought her to work in Jerusalem and later to work on Jerusalem. We discussed her work with the Open Jerusalem project and the question of archives and what archives mean for Jerusalem and Jerusalemites. One the most fascinating discoveries by Maria Chiara was business cards printed in the late 19th and early 20th century by the Franciscan Printing Press, a unique way to look at Jerusalemites, their businesses and the services available to the local population. We then moved to discuss the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem first at large, then focusing on the very important and controversial period between 1946 and 1956. The work of Maria Chiara adds plenty of new material related to 1948 and the Palestinian refugees. Lastly, we discussed the very little known Saint James association, a group that emerged within the Patriarchate and produced a new Catholic liturgy in Hebrew.

Originally published on 12/08/2021

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