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ARAB REBELLION – BAILEY, Morris. Government of Palestine. Curfew Amending Order. Haifa: Warhaftig's Press for District Commissioner's Offices, Haifa and Samaria District, 27 July 1938.
Rare poster amending a curfew order at the height of the Arab Rebellion and in reaction to Jewish terrorism. The summer of 1938 saw a spate of violence in Palestine in general, and in Haifa in particular. The Arab Rebellion split the Jewish population, with the more radical Irgun carrying out armed reprisals against Arabs for attacks on Jewish settlements. However, when the young Shlomo Ben-Yosef was executed by the British for a failed attack on an Arab bus at the end of June 1938, the Jewish community at large felt traumatised and alienated, and this spawned a new wave of Jewish attacks, which only served to drive moderate Arabs into the arms of the more radical. On 25 July 1938, Haifa's market was bombed by Irgun, killing 53 Arabs and wounding a further 45. A riot then ensued as Arabs sought revenge, and Bailey, as District Commissioner, had no other option than to impose a curfew to quell the rising tide of bloodshed.
Large poster (770 x 490mm). Text printed in English, Arabic and Hebrew (one vertical and 7 horizontal creasefolds, tiny crack to one central creasefold with consequent loss to one Arabic letter, small chip to lower right-hand corner, upper margin lightly creased, a couple of marginal tears with fractional loss, some tiny marginal nicks).
Rare poster amending a curfew order at the height of the Arab Rebellion and in reaction to Jewish terrorism. The summer of 1938 saw a spate of violence in Palestine in general, and in Haifa in particular. The Arab Rebellion split the Jewish population, with the more radical Irgun carrying out armed reprisals against Arabs for attacks on Jewish settlements. However, when the young Shlomo Ben-Yosef was executed by the British for a failed attack on an Arab bus at the end of June 1938, the Jewish community at large felt traumatised and alienated, and this spawned a new wave of Jewish attacks, which only served to drive moderate Arabs into the arms of the more radical. On 25 July 1938, Haifa's market was bombed by Irgun, killing 53 Arabs and wounding a further 45. A riot then ensued as Arabs sought revenge, and Bailey, as District Commissioner, had no other option than to impose a curfew to quell the rising tide of bloodshed.
Large poster (770 x 490mm). Text printed in English, Arabic and Hebrew (one vertical and 7 horizontal creasefolds, tiny crack to one central creasefold with consequent loss to one Arabic letter, small chip to lower right-hand corner, upper margin lightly creased, a couple of marginal tears with fractional loss, some tiny marginal nicks).
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