But what, for example, was street-level life really like in Jerusalem in the 1920s, ’30s and ’40s? Of course, we can dip into any of numerous academic tomes or novels that offer some kind of ...

In the Old City of Jerusalem in 1920, a reading of that haftorah resounded throughout the Holy City and infused the people of Jerusalem with a renewed sense of hope. In 1917, the British issued ...

Jerusalem’s Muslim leaders treated the introduction ... of manipulated emotions that sparked the anti-Jewish riots of the 1920s: a deeply felt desire on the part of Palestinians to “protect ...

in Jerusalem. He was named as the Military High Commissioner by the British Mandate, the highest governing position in the region. Shabbat Nachamu, July 1920 was his introduction to the Jewish ...

“The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem” spans the 1920s to the 1940s. It is the story of the Ermoza family, a Sephardic clan in Jerusalem that owns a “delicatess” — their struggles ...

Rutenberg’s plan began coming to fruition in the early 1920s. But bringing electric power to the Holy City would be a different story. At the turn of the century, certain buildings in Jerusalem ...

During the 1920s and 30s, an Arab contracting company built a number of houses in Jerusalem. The head of the company, which was called Kattan and Sons, was a Christian Arab named Ibrahim Kattan.

Still, for a real taste of everyday life, I knew I should lose myself in Jerusalem’s “labyrinthine open-air market,” Mahane Yehuda. Established in the 1920s, the multiethnic market is ...