This book deals comprehensively with different aspects of collective victimhood in contemporary Israel, but also with the wider implications of this important concept for many other societies, including the Palestinian one.

John Lewis Burckhardt (1784-1817), the son of a Swiss Colonel undertook the journey to Mekkah in 1814.

The physician of an unconventional, adventurous aristocrat recounts their time together and publishes her letters in this 1845 three-volume work.