Part XIV For Chaim Weizmann, president of the English Zionist Federation, the Balfour Declaration “represented a tremendous event in exilic Jewish history, [ushering in] “a

Part XIII Nachum Sokolow, a member of the Executive of the World Zionist Organization reports that a correspondent for the London Jewish Chronicle described the

Part XIII Nachum Sokolow, a member of the Executive of the World Zionist Organization reports that a correspondent for the London Jewish Chronicle described the

Part XII “The great miracle has taken place,” asserted David Ben-Gurion, who would become Israel’s first prime minister. On November 14, 1917, in Der Yiddish

Part XI The Jews, who were actively attempting to restore Jewish life in Palestine, recognized in 1917 that a defeat of the Turks might lead

Part X The Jews believe the land was reserved for them at creation because of its spiritual character, asserted philosopher Eliezer Schweid. A unique sanctity

Reviewing: “The Ravine of Memory: Babyn Yar Between the Holocaust and the Great Patriotic War” by Shay A. Pilnik. Purdue University Press. 2025. 276 pages.

Part IX By 1900, Palestine was home to nearly 600,000 inhabitants, according to historian Kenneth W. Stein. The population was overwhelmingly Arab Muslim, but also

Part VIII A considerable amount of hostility that resulted with the increase of Jewish immigration to Palestine did not begin when the British government issued

Part VII While Arab leaders fomented attacks in Palestine against the Zionists, Shapira said other leaders went to London to protest the Balfour Declaration. On

Part VI There is a basic assumption that the Arab-Jewish conflict in Palestine began when the British issued the Balfour Declaration. This notion ignores the

Part IV The decision by the British and French to separate Palestine from Syria at the San Remo Conference in April 1920, in order to