PALESTINE (British Mandate) In the Promised Land Balfour. On Nov. 2, 1917, Mr. Arthur James Balfour, British Foreign Secretary, issued a declaration on behalf of his Government: "His Majesty's ...

In “Land Between the Rivers,” a sweeping history of their country, Bartle Bull explains why. With Iraq’s independence in 1932 from rule by the British Mandate, “the territorial limits of ...

In “Ghosts of a Holy War,” Yardena Schwartz explores an anti-Jewish pogrom in British Mandate Palestine and how it echoed across the next century. Before Oct. 7, there was Aug. 24. On that ...