[Author: Michel Levine, Vol. 81, #1, Autumn-Winter 2026] Shortly after the outbreak of World War I, in December 1914 the Ottoman Empire – allied with the Central Powers of Germany and Austria-Hungary – decided to expel from its colony of Palestine the nationals of
(Author: Kenneth Wright, Vol. 81, #1, Autumn-Winter 2026) EDITOR’S NOTE: In its Winter 2024 (Vol. 79, #1) issue, JA published Alon Shapira’s article ‘”What on earth is there to talk about?” – An act of wartime heroism remembered’ regarding the sinking of the
(Author: Zita Nurok, Vol. 81, #1, Autumn-Winter 2026) We lived across the road from the railway track. I often could be found standing at the fence watching people in the passenger trains going back and forth between Johannesburg and our small town of
(Reviewer: Milton Shain, Vol. 81, #1, Summer 2026) In A History of Christianity, the Oxford scholar Diarmaid MacCulloch – a keen observer of ecclesiastical history and religious conflict – warns against facile and glib constructions of the past. “There is no surer basis for
(Author: Steven Katzew, Vol. 81, #1, Autumn 2026) Picture the scene: the 27th of July 1974, Ellis Park, Johannesburg, considered the fortress of South African rugby. A crowd of 75 000 predominantly South African supporters hoping for the salvaging of some pride by the