Quotes About Montefiore

Stalin had 15 scenic seaside villas, some of them czarist palaces, on the Black Sea coast of Abkhazia. In 2002, I visited and photographed these extraordinarily well-preserved Stalinist time capsules.

In 1918, a police chief of Jerusalem was a Montefiore.

Writing about Jerusalem can be such a minefield.

Moses Montefiore loved Jerusalem, lived for Jerusalem, and even made it our family motto. A Zionist before the word was invented, he believed in the sacred idea of Jewish return as a religious Jew's duty, and in Jewish statehood.

While most know the young Stalin was a seminarian, few realize that he was also a Georgian patriot, a published romantic poet.

One of the strange things about doing publicity is that a mistake in a newspaper profile long ago is repeated and amplified over time.