Margalit Shilo

Margalit Shilo is a professor in the Land of Israel Studies Department at Bar-Ilan University and the author of Princess or Prisoner: Jewish Women in Jerusalem, 1840–1914.

Girls of Liberty: The Struggle for Suffrage in Mandatory Palestine

Following the Balfour Declaration and the British conquest of Palestine (1917–1918), the small Jewish community that lived there wanted to establish...

Princess or Prisoner?: Jewish Women in Jerusalem, 1840-1914

This is a fascinating journey into the world of women in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community of Jerusalem toward the end of Ottoman rule in the Holy Land....

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