The complete online text of Jerusalem by Selma Lagerlöf.

The Swedish author Selma Ottiliana Lovisa Lagerlöf (1858-1940) is noted for her ability to recreate a world of legend in an apparently simple, naive style. She was the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize for literature. Selma Lagerlöf was bo...

In 1909 Selma Lagerlöf became the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in literature. By her eightieth birthday she had been translated into forty languages, and her books are still reissued regularly in many languages. Her first novel, Gö...

Al Price The Jewish Week 03-31-1994 Jerusalem Silent On Jerusalem. It is a given that the United Nations has a double standard regarding the Mideast, condemning Israeli acts of violence (even when they were committed by one individual) and ignoring Arab terrorism against...

MIDDLE-EAST POLITICS MEANS NEVER SAYING SORRY Reconciliation is in the air -- or if it's not it should be. The South Africans have had their truth and reconciliation commission, squeezing the truth and occasionally tears out of the guardians and servants of the...

Israeli archaeologists uncovered a 2,000-year-old mansion believed to have been home to Queen Helene of Adiabene, whose clan ruled a region now in Iraq.The remains of the building were unearthed just outside the walls of Jerusalem's Old City, underneath layers of a more recent settlement...

When Jacky Ben Sheetrit opened a gourmet Belgian chocolate shop in downtown Jerusalem, he gave little thought to the suicide bombings down the block a few years earlier that had threatened to turn the area into a ghost town.Instead, he took his cue from the...