British Government: Policy Statement/Advice against Partition
(11 November 1938) Source: UK Secretary of State for the Colonies Advice against Partition UK Documentation Cmd. 5893/Non-UN Document (11 November 1938). United Nations, n.d. Web. 24 July 2012....
View ArticleArab Leaders Meeting in Damascus
(30 September 1938) Source in Hebrew: http://www.scribd.com/doc/12864644/ Original source found in Ben-Gurion Library Archives and Central Zionist Archives, S25/10526/3 Printable PDF This secret...
View ArticleChaim Weizmann’s Notes for Speech, “Rallying World Jewry to Partition”
The Letters and Papers of Chaim Weizmann, Voleume II, Series B (December 1931 – April 1952), Volume II, Series B, Editor: Barnet Litvinoff [W. traveled to Palestine Nov. 1937 and made two widely-...
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The Political Significance of JNF Land Purchase
(31 December 1937) E.M. Epstein, The Political Significance of Land Purchases, JNF, Information Circular No. 2/98, strictly confidential, 1937: CZA/S25/10250 The Jewish National Fund (JNF), established...
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Peel Commission Report
Peel Commission Report, Findings and Recommendations of the Royal Commission, excerpts (July 1937) Royal Institute of International Affairs, Great Britain and Palestine, 1915-1945, Information Paper...
View ArticleSystematic Agricultural Colonization in Palestine
1934 J. Elazari – Volcani (Issac Vilkanski) SYSTEMATIC AGRICULTURAL COLONIZATION IN PALESTINE REPORT PRESENTED AT THE XVIIITH ZIONIST CONGRESS PRAGUE, 1933 Special Printing from the Protocol of the...
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Ken Stein – Socio-economic Differences Preface Palestine’s Political...
Enumerable socio-economic differences separated the lives and the lifestyles of Arabs and Jews in Palestine in the period before 1948. Those differences had a direct impact on the ability and success...
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The Census of Palestine, 1931 – An Invaluable Glimpse at Palestine’s...
Compilation Ken Stein, July 12, 2021 The 1931 Census of Palestine is a wonderfully rich and essential review of Palestine’s population on November 18, 1931. We learn that the Arab and Jewish...
View ArticleZirin Village Land Sales
(August 16 – October 1, 1930) Source: Husayni, Hilmi. “Regarding Sales of Zirin Village Land.” Letter. 16 Aug. 1930. MS. Israel State Archives. Jerusalem. Box 3511/1 These Arab lands sold to the JNF...
View ArticleJewish Agency official Margalith Identifies Arab peasant displacement from...
February 5, 1930 Source: Heinrich Margalith to Felix Rosenbluth. February 5, 1930. Record group S25/file 7619, Central Zionist Archives, Jerusalem Central to linking Jewish immigrants to the...
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The Mandate for Palestine
(24 July 1922) Hurewitz, J.C. The Middle East and North Africa in World Politics, A Documentary Record . 2nd, Revised and Enlarged ed. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979. 305-308. Print. Vol. 2 of...
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1922 White Paper on Palestine
(July 1922) Hurewitz, J.C. The Middle East and North Africa in World Politics, A Documentary Record . 2nd, Revised and Enlarged ed. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979. 301-5. Print. Vol. 2 of...
View ArticleEmir Feisal – Chaim Weizmann Correspondences
(January 1919 – March 1919) Source: Hearings Before the Committee on Foreign Affairs House of Representatives, Seventy-Eighth Congress, Second Session, February 1944, pp. 42-44. Printable PDF...
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Balfour Declaration
(2 November 1917) Hurewitz, J.C. The Middle East and North Africa in World Politics, A Documentary Record . 2nd, Revised and Enlarged ed. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979. 106. Print. Vol. 2 of...
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Sykes-Picot Agreement
(15-16 May 1916) Hurewitz, J.C. The Middle East and North Africa in World Politics, A Documentary Record . 2nd, Revised and Enlarged ed. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979. 62-3. Print. Vol. 2 of...
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1914-1915 Husayn-McMahon Correspondence
24 October 1915 Source: George Antonius,The Arab Awakening. New York: Capricorn Books, 1965. 413-27. Print. Sir Henry McMahon (1862-1949), British High Commissioner in Cairo, negotiated in 1915-16...
View ArticleFirst Zionist Congress, Hebrew Language Newspaper Reporting
Translations of Selected Hebrew language newspaper reporting, First World Zionist Congress, Basel, Switzerland, August 29-31, 1897 Translated from Hebrew, Roni Eshel, Atlanta, Ga. 2013 To secure a...
View ArticleMax Nordau, Address at the First Zionist Congress, Basel Switzerland
Anna and Max Nordau, Max Nordau: A Biography, Nordau Institute, New York, 1943, pp. 132-136. Context and perspective are key elements in understanding history. Zionism emerged in the 19th century...
View ArticleThe Jewish State, Theodor Herzl
(1896) Herzl, Theodor. “The Jewish Question.” The Jewish State. Trans. Sylvie D’Avigdor. 1896. N.p.: American Zionist Emergency Council, 1946. N. pag. Print. The origins of the Zionist movement are...
View ArticleMinister Andrew D. White on the Jewish Situation in Russia
Minister Andrew D. White on the Jewish Situation in Russia (6 July 1893) White, Andrew D. “Appendix.” With Firmness in the Right. By Cyrus Adler and Aaron M. Margalith. New York: The American Jewish...
View ArticleLiturgical References to Zion and Jerusalem
Elbogen, Ismar. Jewish Liturgy: A Comprehensive History. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1993. Zion, E retz Yisrael (The Land of Israel) and Jerusalem are mentioned frequently in ancient...
View ArticleBiblical Covenants
Jewish Publication Society. JPS Hebrew-English Tanakh: the traditional Hebrew text and the new JPS translation. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 2003. Printable PDF Jewish attachment to the...
View ArticleChaim Weizmann lobbies Lord Cecil to have Great Britain control Palestine...
(25 April 1917) The Letters and Papers of Chaim Weizmann, Volume VII, August 1914-November 1917, Letter 356. Before the Balfour Declaration was issued in November 1917, Chaim Weizmann lobbied...
View ArticlePalestine High Commissioner Sir John Chancellor seeks to stop the Jewish...
(17 January 1930) Cabinet Papers 108 (1930)/file 20835; also found in Great Britain, Colonial Office files, CO 733/183/77050, Part 1 Sir John Chancellor was the third British High Commissioner in...
View ArticleMinutes of a Jewish Agency Meeting of Institutions on Issues Concerning the...
(1 January 1932) Record Group, KKL5, Central Zionist Archives, Jerusalem, Israel Participants: The Jewish Agency: Dr. Arlosoroff, Mr. Y. Gordon and M. Shertok. The National Committee: Dr. A....
View ArticleDavid Ben-Gurion’s secret Remarks on “Arab Perceptions of Zionism.
Secret Remarks by David Ben-Gurion, “Arab Perception of Zionism 1937,” Palestine Royal (Peel) Commission, Forty-Ninth Meeting – Secret Notes of evidence taken on Thursday, 7 January 1937 Source:...
View ArticleHerbert Samuel’s review of present and future Zionist-Arab interactions in...
Sir Herbert Samuel, a review of present and future Zionist-Arab interactions in a report on Palestine to The Right Honorable Ea rl Curzon of Kedleston, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs,...
View Article1931-1949 – Arab land sales to Jews – Palestine Arab Press, British reports...
Ken Stein, November 2023 These Palestinian Arab newspaper materials and other quotations about Arab land sales to the Zionists during the British Mandate were first read and collected at the National...
View ArticlePalestinian Arab Grievances Against the British for Supporting the Jewish...
January 1936Source: HMG Cabinet Papers CAB 24/259, Printed for the Cabinet. PALESTINE – Arab GrievancesMemorandum by the Secretary of State for the Colonies.After four years of continuous increases in...
View ArticleJewish National Fund Discussion on land purchase in the Negev and Beersheba
JNF Discussions on whether to buy lands in the Negev- Minutes of the Meeting Held in the JNF Offices in Jerusalem(22 November 1926)Introduction: The Jewish National Fund held a prolonged debate and...
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