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De l’inscription rituelle au texte séditieux : les graffitis hébraïques du mur des Lamentations, de l’Antiquité au 20e siècle (2023)
Journal Article
Wallach, Y. (in press). De l’inscription rituelle au texte séditieux : les graffitis hébraïques du mur des Lamentations, de l’Antiquité au 20e siècle. Vingtième siècle, revue d'histoire, 2022/4(156), 85-101

For centuries, Jewish pilgrims to Jerusalem wrote their names on the stones of the Western Wall as part of their devotional practice. This custom was abruptly outlawed by British colonial authorities in 1930, after the Western Wall became the epicent... Read More about De l’inscription rituelle au texte séditieux : les graffitis hébraïques du mur des Lamentations, de l’Antiquité au 20e siècle.

The Unbuilt Parliament: British Colonial Plans for a Legislative Assembly in Jerusalem (2022)
Journal Article
Wallach, Y., & Cirujano, J. (2022). The Unbuilt Parliament: British Colonial Plans for a Legislative Assembly in Jerusalem. Jerusalem quarterly file, 92, 69-101

The deliberations over the establishment of a legislative assembly in Mandatory Palestine have long been dismissed by the historiography as one of many failed ideas of the Mandate. Yet the legislative assembly was not a mere concept thrown around in... Read More about The Unbuilt Parliament: British Colonial Plans for a Legislative Assembly in Jerusalem.