Erich von Falkenhayn, Jamal Pasha, and a narrow escape.

Joseph Karo and the Judeo-Islamic tradition.

An official report likened the ouster of the Turks to the defeat of the Seleucid Greeks by the Maccabees.

A locust swarm of seemingly biblical proportions.

The Forty Days of Musa Dagh.

When Allenby marched into Jerusalem.

The travels of Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi.

Past and present fused uncannily in the rabbis’ thoughts.

The author of a biblically themed opera, and perhaps of Havah Nagilah.

“The only Israeli food that they eat is the blood of the Palestinian people.”

Ghost tracks of the Holy Land.

“Traces of an omniscient God” or “unspeakably offensive to eye and nostril”?