Ottoman Empire
And fought the slave trade.
A new book tells their story.
A new book upends conventional wisdom.
An ancient community, destroyed by Hitler.
“Suddenly, along comes a woman dressed like a man, riding a horse . . .”
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.