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Jews of Britain: A Thousand-Year Journey
From William the Conqueror to the Kindertransport, the story of British Jewry encompasses medieval massacres, centuries of exile, readmission under Cromwell, and a community that helped shape the modern Jewish world.
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The Balfour Declaration: Sixty-Seven Words That Changed History
In 1917, British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour wrote a sixty-seven-word letter endorsing a Jewish homeland in Palestine. That letter set the course for the creation of Israel — and for a conflict that continues to this day.
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