JERUSALEM -- In the 1920s, an urgent call went out to the literati across the Middle East from Arab leaders in Jerusalem: Send us your books so that we may protect them for generations to come.

The conflict commenced in 1920 when the three main actors, the Jews, the Arabs and the British clashed during the Passover holiday in the streets and alleyways of Jerusalem. Present were British ...

“Art is national. We can have great art if we are rooted in the soil,” Menachem Ussishkin stated in a 1926 response to the growing number of modern-art exhibitions in Jerusalem. His words echoed the ...

I’d begin my day in the Old City with its diversity of people, communities and religious sites. First up is the Via Dolorosa, where pilgrims follow the steps of Jesus and stop to pray by the 14 ...

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