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Jerusalem- Rebirth of a City Martin Gilbert (Jerusalem- Domino Press, 1985) 238 pp., $25.00 Nineteenth-century Jerusalem was, in many ways, both a reflection of the past and a prophecy of the future. Beneath its narrow streets and among its ancient quarters lay the remains of the city’s 5,000-year-long history. In the hearts and minds of […]
Even before the destruction of the First Temple in 587 B.C.E., Jewish communities had been established outside Israel. The Second Temple’s destruction in 70 C.E., however, carried the Jews to the far corners of the settled world and established the “Diaspora” (Greek for “dispersion”) as the proper description of the Jewish condition. No longer was […]
Australian horsemen reenact the heroic Beersheba charge on its 90th anniversary 4th Light Horse Brigade at Beersheva Victory by 800 mounted Australians over 4,000 well-trained Turks seems a bit far-fetched. But that’s exactly what happened on October 31, 1917, at the Battle of Beersheba, which 90 years ago arguably changed the direction of the Sinai […]
Jerusalem was now back under the control of the Egyptian court, but only for a little while longer under the Ayyubids. After the death of Ayyub in 1249, control was seized by Aybak, a Mameluke, and he started a line of sultans who were to rule the region for 267 years. The dilemma every […]
Early Modern Period Overview Overview- Jews in Muslim Lands/Ottoman Empire Primary sources and presentations Obdiah Bentinoro, Letter from Jerusalem, Elliott Horowitz, Bar-Ilan University, Israel. Sefer `Ets Hayyim (text), Yosef Hacker, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. (The presentation gives a good overview of Jews in the Ottoman Empire.) Secondary sources Arbel, Benjamin. “Venice and the Jewish […]
Overview Overview- Ottoman Empire Secondary sources Arbel, Benjamin. “Venice and the Jewish Merchants of Istanbul in the Sixteenth Century.” In The Mediterranean and the Jews- Banking, Finance, and International Trade, edited by Simon Schwarzfuchs Ariel Toaff. Ramat-Gan- Bar-Ilan University Press, 1989. Carpi, Daniel. “The Activity of The “Italian Congregation” Of Venice on Behalf of […]
The two decades between 1900 and 1920 propelled Zionism forward. In 1903, a proposal was made to establish a Jewish homeland in Uganda, but this proposal was declined by the Zionist Congress. The Kishnev Pogrom in Russia and other anti-Semitic events confirmed the importance of establishing a Jewish homeland in Palestine. In 1917, the Balfour […]
The Jewish community of Safed grew exponentially in the 16th century. Rabbi Yosef Caro, author of the Shulchan Aruch, a codification of Jewish law, was a resident of the city. Mystic scholar Rabbi Shlomo Alkabets wrote the famous Lecha Dodi song in Safed in 1524. Rabbi Moshe Kordovo developed Jewish mysticism into a new system […]
“PROCLAMATION OF ISRAEL IS CLIMAX TO EFFORT DATING FROM 586 B.C Establishment of the Jewish state recalls persistent hope for national life since destruction of the Fast Temple 2,500 years ago The proclamation yesterday of the sovereign state of Israel represents the fruition of a movement, Zionism, that traces its origin back more than 2,500 […]
Winston Churchill, Secretary of the State for the Colonies, in keeping with Britain’s ‘economy with honor’ policy towards the Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire, had sponsored and chaired a conference at Cairo on 12th march 1921, to draw up a blueprint for an imperial policy to be adopted for the ‘Arab rectangle’. The Cairo […]