The American author, Mark Twain, and Theodor Herzl, the Zionist leader, may seem unlikely associates. In fact, they not only knew of each other but became good friends. Both were journalists, having met in Paris in 1894,1 the year of the Dreyfus Affair.
Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish officer in the Fre…
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Our understanding of Bible prophecy, based on Ezekiel chapter 38 and related texts, casts Russia as the enemy of Israel: the latter day head of a confederacy determined to subjugate the prosperous Jewish state. All of this is correct but it is also true that Russia played a pivotal role in the estab…
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The Roman destruction of the Herodian Temple Mount was a tragedy that is still mourned today. On the 9th day of the Hebrew month Ab (usually in August), Jews worldwide remember the destruction of the First and Second Temples, both of which were destroyed on the same day of the year. On that day of f…
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One of the largest of the beautiful islands in the Ionian Sea, Zakynthos, lies to the west of mainland Greece2. In October, 1943, German forces arrived on the island with orders to round up the Jews. A familiar pattern followed: a night-time curfew was imposed on the island’s Jews and they wer…
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France had welcomed Jewish immigrants during the interwar period, many of them from Eastern Europe. But in the 1930s, as refugees fleeing Nazi persecution increased, France began to reassess this ‘open-door’ policy. When German forces invaded France on May 10, 1940, there were about 350,000 Jews…
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Although in 1944 the allied victory over Nazi Germany was not in doubt, new danger faced the Jews of Hungary. Refugees fleeing from Hitler’s Germany had almost doubled Hungary’s Jewish population to 800,000. Although Hungary was allied with Germany, the Hungarian government had provided a brea…
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