Book details: YEDIAT HA-ARETS: PALÄSTINAKUNDE [HEFT II]
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Jewish Agency For Palestine. Child and Youth Immigration Bureau
YEDIAT HA-ARETS: PALÄSTINAKUNDE [HEFT II]
Imprint: [Genf, Belgium]: [Jewish Agency For Palestine. Child And Youth Immigration Bureau], 1946
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
1st edition. Original wrappers. 8vo. 58 pages, 30 cm. In German. Title translates to “Knowing the Land. ” Published just after the war as Jewish refugee children were being brought to Palestine. This mimeograph publication appears to be for use in teaching those children about the land to which they are about to emigrate. “In 1929, the Palestine Zionist Executive was renamed, restructured and officially inaugurated as The Jewish Agency for Palestine by the 16th Zionist Congress, held in Zurich, Switzerland. The new body was larger and included a number of Jewish non-Zionist individuals and organizations, who were interested in Jewish settlement in Palestine. They were philanthropic rather than political, and many opposed talk of a Jewish State. With this broader Jewish representation, the Jewish Agency for Palestine was recognized by the British in 1930, in lieu of the Zionist Organization, as the appropriate Jewish agency under the terms of the Mandate (Wikipedia, 2018) . SUBJECTS: Palestine - Middle East. OCLC lists 2 copies worldwide (Harvard and Princeton) . Light edge wear to to wrappers. Pages browning. Good Condition. Rare (YID-41-40)
Stock number:40255.