The Zealous Intruders: The Western Rediscovery of Palestine
This book recreates British rule in Palestine from the winter of 1917 to the spring of 1948.
"At the end of the eighteenth century, in the wake of Napoleon's disastrous invasion, Palestine was seen by the West as a barren and neglected country in need of Western...
The story of a world in upheaval, taking us from the 1870s through the 1930s, A Price below Rubies shows us Jewish radical women at once remarkable and representative, writing themselves into history - and out of the tradition that produced ...
Wilfrid Israel, German Jewry's Secret Ambassador
Wilfrid Israel was a most unlikely hero.