Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Historian Simon Sebag Montefiore in conversation with journalist Matti Friedman at the National Library of Israel, in Jerusalem on ...

Of all the cities in all the world, none is more savagely storied as Jerusalem. Built and rebuilt by some of histories most enduring names, and destroyed and re-destroyed by at least as many just as ...

Popular historian Montefiore (Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar) presents a panoramic narrative of Jerusalem, organized chronologically and delivered with magisterial flair. Spanning eras from King ...

“The history of Jerusalem is a chronicle of slaughter, massacre, stormings, sieges, destructions, rebuildings,” Sebag agrees. “By its standards, the last 40 years have been pretty tranquil – even with ...

Author and historian Simon Sebag Montefiore presents a three-part series that illuminates the history of the sacred, and peerlessly beautiful city - Jerusalem.

With the likely killing of Yevgeny Prigozhin, Putin reasserted his power, but Russian history offers lessons on state violence and control Vladimir Putin knows all too well the history of how tsars ...