Showing posts with label Jerusalem. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jerusalem. Show all posts

Thursday, 31 January 2013

City of God

"... the social etiquette required for dinner parties at Government House [in Jerusalem under the British Mandate in the 1920s] where Sir Harry Luke, John Chancellor's deputy, remembered how the toastmaster welcomed high commissioners, chief rabbis, chief judges, mayors and patriarchs: 'Your Excellency, Your Honour, Your Beatitudes, Your Eminences, Your Lord Bishops, Your Paternity, Your Reverends, Your Worship, Ladies and Gentlemen.'"

Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem, the Biography (2011)