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Writing Palestine 1933-1950

Dorothy Kahn Bar-Adon
  • Dorothy Kahn Bar-Adon
  • Edited by: Esther Carmel-Hakim and Nancy Rosenfeld
  • Funded by: Knowledge Unlatched
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2016
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About this book

This is an edited collection of articles by journalist Dorothy Kahn Bar-Adon. Between 1933-1950 Bar-Adon covered life in Jewish towns and kibbutzim, as well as in the Arab communities, of Mandatory Palestine. This book offers a vivid view of life in urban and rural areas of pre-State Israel.

Author / Editor information

Esther Carmel-Hakim is a lecturer at the University of Haifa. She is a researcher on women and women's organizations in the Zionist movement and in Israel; Carmel-Hakim has initiated internet sites and movies on women and regularly delivers public lectures on women trailblazers.

Nancy Rosenfeld teaches in the English Studies Unit and in the Humanities Enrichment Program of the Max Stern College of Emek Yizreel (Jezreel Valley), Israel. She is the author of The Human Satan in Seventeenth Century English Literature: From Milton to Rochester (Ashgate, 2008), and has published articles on John Milton, John Bunyan, John Wilmot, second earl of Rochester, John Keats, Robert Graves and Siegfried Sassoon.

Reviews

Joyce Antler, Samuel Lane Professor of American Jewish History and Culture, Brandeis University:
“The writings of American-born journalist Dorothy Kahn Bar-Adon provide a fascinating window onto the politics and culture of pre-state Palestine in the 1920s through 1940s. This treasure trove of previously unpublished material from The Palestine Post and Bar-Adon’s personal archive introduces us to a witty and perceptive reporter, who writes in a uniquely female voice. A welcome and significant contribution to the historical record!”

Deborah Hertz, Herman Wouk Chair in Modern Jewish Studies, University of California, San Diego:
“Historians and the broader reading public are lucky to have a new primary source in English offered by the lively voice of Dorothy Bar-Adon. She is witty and empathic, and her lost articles and memoir help us understand why courageous American Jewish souls were attracted to the Zionist project--in a more innocent time than the present.”

Margalit Shilo, Professor in the Land of Israel Department, Bar Ilan University:
"Writing Palestine by Dorothy Kahn Bar-Adon takes the reader back to the seventeen most eventful years (1933 – 1950) in Mandatory Palestine and the beginning of the Jewish state. The author, a Jewish American-born journalist, wrote extensively about everyday life concerning all its aspects. The two editors of these unique documents, Esther Carmel–Hakim and Nancy Rosenfeld collected them from her private unknown archive and from the English daily The Palestine Post, later to become The Jerusalem Post. This book brings forth the noises, sights and feelings of these unforgettable years."

Publishing information
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eBook published on:
August 18, 2016
eBook ISBN:
9781618114969
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