The latter in turn was severely limited by British support of the Jewish labor council, the Histadrut. In the final short chapter, “The Mandate in Context ... columnist of opinion pieces and book ...

A Visual Chronicle of a Vibrant Society (1898-1946) This is a review of an exceptional photobook, Images of Palestine ...

His latest book is "The Farhud ... undetermined region known as Palestine, which included Jerusalem. When the Ottoman Empire fell, after World War I ended in 1918, the British were obligated by the ...

has written a book for a general audience, Mandate: The Palestine Crucible 1919-1939 (Vallentine Mitchell 2021) in which he essentially expands on Westerman’s approach. What is remarkable is that the ...

Mr. Mayzel is a professor of history at the Cummings Center for Russian and East European Studies at Tel-Aviv University. Three factors shaped the borders of present-day Israel: the British ...

Ruth Sheldon’s Tragic Encounters and Ordinary Ethics: Palestine-Israel in British Universities is ... she begins the book by recounting her grandmother’s illegal journey from Prague to mandate ...

In 1920, the newly-formed League of Nations gave the British Empire the Mandate for Palestine, granting British administration to Palestine and Transjordan (now the modern Kingdom of Jordan).

Mr. Mayzel is a professor of history at the Cummings Center for Russian and East European Studies at Tel-Aviv University. Three factors shaped the borders of present-day Israel: the British ...

Three factors shaped the borders of present-day Israel: the British mandate on Palestine; the outcome of the Israeli War of Independence of 1948-1949 (the first of the Arab-Israeli wars of the 20th ...