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LEOPOLD CHARLES MAURICE STENNETT AMERY (1873-1955)
The Western or Wailing Wall in Jerusalem. Memorandum by the Secretary of State for the Colonies. [Cmd. 3229.] London: HMSO, 1928. 8° (246 x 152mm). 6pp. (Vertical creasefold throughout, light marginal creasing.) Stapled self-wrappers (light marginal soiling and dogearing, staples rusting). Provenance: Sir Leon Simon (1881-1965; pencil ownership inscription on upper cover).
RARE MEMORANDUM ON THE RELIGIOUS DISPUTE THAT WOULD DEFINE THE PALESTINE MANDATE. In 1920s Palestine, the prevailing consensus was that the Western, or Wailing Wall, belonged to Muslims. Jewish attempts to alter the status quo by bringing chairs and benches to the wall were interpreted by Muslims as designs to rebuild the Jewish temple; and in 1928, the chief rabbi of the European (Askenazi) community issued a broadly worded edict calling for exactly that. On 24th September, Yom Kippur, a group of worshippers armed with the rabbi's decree, fastened a screen to the wall and pavement to divide the male and female congregants, per Orthodox tradition. The Muslim guardian of the site complained, and the Palestine Police forcibly removed it, provoking howls of outrage from both parties. Almost a year later, these long-running religious tensions came to a head, with Arab riots in Jerusalem spreading to Hebron and Safed, leading to the deaths of 133 Jews and 110 Arabs (see lots 375, 377-381). The present paper describes the infringements of the status quo and states the British government's determination to preserve it. Leon Simon was a leading Zionist, and was influential with Weizmann in framing the Balfour Declaration. Khalidi & Khadduri 1669.
The Western or Wailing Wall in Jerusalem. Memorandum by the Secretary of State for the Colonies. [Cmd. 3229.] London: HMSO, 1928. 8° (246 x 152mm). 6pp. (Vertical creasefold throughout, light marginal creasing.) Stapled self-wrappers (light marginal soiling and dogearing, staples rusting). Provenance: Sir Leon Simon (1881-1965; pencil ownership inscription on upper cover).
RARE MEMORANDUM ON THE RELIGIOUS DISPUTE THAT WOULD DEFINE THE PALESTINE MANDATE. In 1920s Palestine, the prevailing consensus was that the Western, or Wailing Wall, belonged to Muslims. Jewish attempts to alter the status quo by bringing chairs and benches to the wall were interpreted by Muslims as designs to rebuild the Jewish temple; and in 1928, the chief rabbi of the European (Askenazi) community issued a broadly worded edict calling for exactly that. On 24th September, Yom Kippur, a group of worshippers armed with the rabbi's decree, fastened a screen to the wall and pavement to divide the male and female congregants, per Orthodox tradition. The Muslim guardian of the site complained, and the Palestine Police forcibly removed it, provoking howls of outrage from both parties. Almost a year later, these long-running religious tensions came to a head, with Arab riots in Jerusalem spreading to Hebron and Safed, leading to the deaths of 133 Jews and 110 Arabs (see lots 375, 377-381). The present paper describes the infringements of the status quo and states the British government's determination to preserve it. Leon Simon was a leading Zionist, and was influential with Weizmann in framing the Balfour Declaration. Khalidi & Khadduri 1669.
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