The Balfour Declaration: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict Jonathan Schneer Random House, 416 pp., $28 Reviewed by Arthur T. Vanderbilt II How often have we followed current events, only to ...

As Elliot Jager explains, the Balfour Declaration was a letter, dated Nov. 2, 1917, from British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour to Lord Rothschild, a leader of British Jewry, that began ...

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Jonathan Schneer's well-researched history "The Balfour Declaration" tells the story of the 67-word sentence crafted by British Secretary Arthur Balfour that led to the most intractable ...

In 1881, after Russian revolutionaries assassinated Tsar Alexander II, his son, Alexander III, blamed the Jews for his father’s death. He vowed to coerce one-third of Russian Jews to convert to ...

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Balfour’s 1917 declaration, of course, was an attempt to avoid disaster in the First World War by encouraging the Jews of Russia and America to support the Allies against Germany.

It has been 100 years since the Balfour Declaration – issued by the British government on Nov. 2, 1917 – offered the first international recognition of Jewish national aspirations.

After all, the Balfour Declaration was also our Chancellor’s declaration. The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

Balfour was the product of all the Allied powers, author says Christian groups host 100th anniversary event at European Parliament. By BENJAMIN GLATT DECEMBER 8, 2017 09:02 Updated: DECEMBER 8 ...

The Balfour Declaration - The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict. Jonathan Schneer Anchor Canada (Random House), Toronto, 2012. This is the best that academic political history gets. More than ...

The Balfour declaration thus finds its place among a multitude of fruitless schemes and indulgent fantasies, except, of course, that in this case, surprisingly, the British by and large kept their ...