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...

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...

Arsonists burst into a Jerusalem church and set the building on fire, church officials said Wednesday, raising suspicions that Jewish extremists were behind the attack.The church in west Jerusalem's Rehavia neighborhood was rebuilt after it was burned down 25 years ago by ultra-Orthodox Jewish extremists.Members...

Palestinian teenagers threw rocks at Israeli police and attacked a Canadian tourist bus Saturday in a new wave of protests against Israeli construction work near a flashpoint Jerusalem holy site.The violence came a day after police stormed the disputed compound in the Old City, using...