"When Herman Melville arrived in Jerusalem in the winter of 1857 he was startled and dismayed by the contrast between his expectations of Jerusalem and the Holy Land and their reality. He wrote in his journal that no country would more quickly dissipate romantic expectations tha…
Yehuda Amon and Haim Nahmias were middle-class Jerusalem Jews who were conscripted into the Ottoman army and transported to Western Anatolia with the labour battalions. They kept detailed notes of their experiences which they later extended into complete narratives. Both diaries…
"Year of the Locust captures in page-turning detail the end of the Ottoman world and a pivotal moment in Palestinian history. In the diaries of Ihsan Hasan al-Turjman (1893-1917), the first ordinary recruit to describe the World War I from the Arab side, we follow the misadventu…
This text captures the end of the Ottoman world and a pivotal moment in Palestinian history. In the diaries of Ihsan Hasan al-Turjman (1893-1917), the first ordinary recruit to describe the World War I from the Arab side, we follow the misadventures of an Ottoman soldier station…
