What was the concept of 'A National Home for the Jewish People,' where did it come from, and how was it defined? Barzilay-Yegar traces the shifting meanings of the phrase from its first coining in the Balfour Declaration of 1917, to international recognition when it was included…
Cover -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 | The Road Not Taken: The Ethnic Problem and the Arab Question -- 2 | Natives of the Orient: Political and Social Rapprochement -- 3 | Cultural Politics: Journalistic, Cultural, and Linguistic…
In Weathered by Miracles, Thomas Idinopulos tells the story of that one explosive moment in Palestine's long history that began with Napoleon's invasion of the Middle East in 1798 and concluded with the founding of the Jewish state of Israel in 1948. Transformed from a forgotte…
In Weathered by Miracles, Thomas Idinopulos tells the story of that one explosive moment in Palestine's long history that began with Napoleon's invasion of the Middle East in 1798 and concluded with the founding of the Jewish state of Israel in 1948. Transformed from a forgotte…
"The genocide of Armenians by Turks during the First World War was one of the most horrendous deeds of modern times and a precursor of the genocidal acts that have marked the rest of the twentieth century. Despite the worldwide attention the atrocities received at the time, the …