Courtesy of The Educational Bookshop

Visitors to Jerusalem often arrive with lists of shrines or places where history has settled and refuses to budge. Yet the city resists being held only in the past. It lives elsewhere too, beyond its ancient walls: in rooms filled with voices, at tables where people linger, in places of art, culture and literature, where the present quietly gathers and insists it is there. The Educational Bookshop is one such place. For nearly half a century, it has been less visited than returned to, a spa