Sir Herbert Samuel was the first British High Commissioner of Palestine, but found his conscience torn between dual loyalties.

The issue of Arab demographics before and during the pre- and early Zionist period has long been a sore point. ...

Rather than solve Europe's problems the Versailles Treaty perpetuated them. However, one provision had a profound impact on Jewish history, ...

Kaiser Wilhelm II was so arrogant that when he visited Jerusalem in 1898 he made them take down the ancient ...

WWI uprooted Jewish communities and destroyed the infrastructure of Jewish life, forever changing the face of Jewry. But an event ...

Although Theodore Herzl founded Zionism the modern idea of a Jewish state had been in the air decades, originating with ...

Friedrich Nietzsche's writings were used by the Nazis to make a lethal ideology that brought the world to war and ...

In decade before WWI Eastern European Jewry was disintegrating externally and internally due to urbanization, revolution and virulently anti-religious Jews.

As Herzl tried to hold his Zionist movement together contentious battles were fought over questions like: Will it be a ...

One of the strange quirks in history is that Rabbi Israel Salanter and the followers of his Mussar Movement were ...