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Writing Palestine 1933-1950, Dorothy Kahn Bar-Adon ; edited by Esther Carmel Hakim, Nancy Rosenfeld

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

contains biographical information

illustrations

index present

non fiction

Writing Palestine 1933-1950

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bibliography

Dorothy Kahn Bar-Adon ; edited by Esther Carmel Hakim, Nancy Rosenfeld

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., From her immigration to Mandatory Palestine in 1933 until her death in 1950 American-born Dorothy Kahn Bar-Adon worked as a reporter for The Palestine Post (later The Jerusalem Post), while freelancing for periodicals in Palestine and abroad. Bar-Adon covered life in towns, kibbutzim and Arab communities of Mandatory Palestine during this period of World War, armed conflict between Arabs and Jews, immigration to Israel of Holocaust survivors. Close to 60 years after her death, this edited collection of Bar-Adon's writing offers a vivid view both of daily life in the Jewish and Arab communities of pre-State Israel, and of the burning issues of the day