Our Jerusalem

An American Family in the Holy City 1881-1949 by Bertha Spafford Vester. Story of her parents, Horatio Gates Spafford, Jr., and Anna Spafford, friends of Dwight L. Moody and survivors of the Chicago fire of 1871, who, after the death of several of their children, moved to Jerusalem and established the American Colony in 1881. Tale of the author's family and life in the Holy City of Jerusalem from 1881 to 1949. Bertha Spafford Vester first lived in the Old City as a child, then became a leading figure in the community founded by her parents. A great tale of her sometimes arduous life and having to live through the last days of Turkish Rule, two World Wars, the British Mandate, the birth of Israel and the Six Day War.