Ottoman Empire
As the conventional wisdom would have it?
The story of raki in America.
The language was in use far earlier than previously thought.
Mendes Cohen was born to Jewish immigrants in Richmond, VA in 1796; his family moved to Baltimore when he was a child. During the War. . .
In 1621, the famed talmudist and mystic Isaiah Horowitz left his native Prague, where he had served as rabbi to what was then the world’s. . .
Claims that Jews have built on privately owned Arab land are often upheld by Israeli courts; just as often, they ignore the ownership laws of pre-1948 Palestine.
The first known photographs of Jerusalem, taken when Ottoman Turks ruled the city, show a Temple Mount and Western Wall in disrepair and surrounded by rubble.
With the destruction of physical monuments and landscapes through war or decay, travelers’ accounts have become an invaluable source for reconstructing Ottoman Palestine.
Britain deployed a million men and vast resources to fight the Ottomans during World War I. How did an archeologist with no military training manage. . .
The Great War, which began in the days around Tisha b’Av, 1914, saw Jews of different nationalities fighting each other in the trenches and dying. . .
Among the first European settlers in Ottoman Palestine, the German Templers provided a model of enterprise for early Zionists. Then came the British, and then. . .
For the first time since the Ottoman Empire fell, Muslims in the Middle East are free to pursue the same dream that inspired Europe’s nationalists.. . .
For the Middle East, World War I initiated a rapid transition from the pre-modern to the modern world. Archeologists have unearthed evidence of a. . .