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The tsar of War and Peace, especially in the BBC version, is a complete popinjay and a useless character. The real tsar, Alexander I, had an amazing career.

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Alexander II really used autocracy well to negotiate the freeing of the serfs in 1861.

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In the new Georgia, Stalin is no longer Georgian. He's a Russian emperor.

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

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Writing about Jerusalem was very stressful; every word counts.

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I don't feel that Jewish people have a class.

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As a youth, I was much more of a Zionist. But Israel was very different then. Israel's changed, and so have I.

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There is a view of Russian exceptionalism, that they are a unique civilisation, a view right since Ivan the Terrible that Russia is a special civilisation with a special culture. Putin is pushing that now.

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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.

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The vanishing of David Tang is like the unthinkable diappearance of a magnificent palace on a mythical mountaintop. He was a dreammaker, pianist, adventurer, writer, entrepreneur, scholar, connoisseur, and a great friend.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Historian

Born: June 27th, 1965

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