Breaking the Mold – Edward Brampton
A mariner, a knight, the governor of the Isle of Guernsey, and a nobleman with influence at the English and the Portuguese courts – Edward Brampton, the son of a Jewish blacksmith, defied the so-called...
Haggai Olshanetsky
Dr. Haggai Olshanetsky, Assistant professor in the Faculty of History at the University of Warsaw. Currently collaborating on an academic project, “The Dawn of Monotheism? Judean Religion(s) in the Persian and Early Hellenistic Periods”
Imperial Synagogue – Dura-Europos Synagogue
Once upon a time in southeastern Syria, the Roman and Sassanid-Persian empires battled over a city nestled among the dunes. Its ruins revealed a synagogue with some of the most exquisite murals ever seen. Who...
Victory at a Price – British Counter-Guerrilla Warfare
Is there any basis for the claim that guerrilla forces are invincible? The British Empire has bested them in a few vicious wars – but at what cost? And for how long? The answers often...
