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PALESTINE – ARAB REBELLION AND JEWISH UNREST – Press photographs. 1936-1938.
Interesting collection of large-format photographs of the British trying to maintain order on two fronts. They show Palestine Police and soldiers trying to maintain order in the face of Jewish protests, stimulated by the execution of Shlomo Ben-Yosef and hostility to the British 'White paper' of 1939 restricting Jewish migration into Palestine, while on the other hand, the effects of the Arab Rebellion are clearly shown by derailed trains, burnt-out buildings at Lydda airport, and searches of Arab suspects. The formation of Jewish settlement police is shown, wearing traditional 'kolpak' hats before receiving Australian-style slouch hats, while another image shows a troop of armed Arabs filing through a village watched by onlookers. The erection of watch towers and guarded barbed-wire fences demonstrates the Jewish reaction to contemporary events. Included are images of Fawzi Bey Al-Qawkchi and Haj Amin Al Husseini, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, leaders of the Arab Rebellion, as well as British politicians, including Edward Keith-Roach, District Governor of Jerusalem.
A group of 29 press photographs, dated 1936-1939, various sizes (mostly approx. 180 x 230 mm., a few larger or smaller), most with typescript descriptions on versos, stamps and serial numbers of mostly American press agencies, with a few from British agencies (a few light marginal creases.)
Interesting collection of large-format photographs of the British trying to maintain order on two fronts. They show Palestine Police and soldiers trying to maintain order in the face of Jewish protests, stimulated by the execution of Shlomo Ben-Yosef and hostility to the British 'White paper' of 1939 restricting Jewish migration into Palestine, while on the other hand, the effects of the Arab Rebellion are clearly shown by derailed trains, burnt-out buildings at Lydda airport, and searches of Arab suspects. The formation of Jewish settlement police is shown, wearing traditional 'kolpak' hats before receiving Australian-style slouch hats, while another image shows a troop of armed Arabs filing through a village watched by onlookers. The erection of watch towers and guarded barbed-wire fences demonstrates the Jewish reaction to contemporary events. Included are images of Fawzi Bey Al-Qawkchi and Haj Amin Al Husseini, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, leaders of the Arab Rebellion, as well as British politicians, including Edward Keith-Roach, District Governor of Jerusalem.
A group of 29 press photographs, dated 1936-1939, various sizes (mostly approx. 180 x 230 mm., a few larger or smaller), most with typescript descriptions on versos, stamps and serial numbers of mostly American press agencies, with a few from British agencies (a few light marginal creases.)
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