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Irgun-published newspaper titled Herut ("Freedom"). The lead front-page article condemns the British for asking Itzhak Ben-Zvi, the president of the Jewish National Council, the main representative of the Jewish community during the British Mandate, to take action against the Irgun's "terrorist actions" against the British. The article argues that Ben-Zvi should have answered this request by condemning British policies and refusing to betray his fellow Jews. Ben-Zvi later became the second president of the State of Israel.
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Underground Publications and Ephemera Printed in Palestine at End of the Palestine Mandate
These documents capture a fascinating moment in Jewish history, a turmoil-filled “interregnum” of sorts, between the destruction of European Jewry in World War II and the establishment of Israel: the violent fight against the British, efforts to rescue Jewish refugees in Europe and smuggle them into Eretz Israel, diplomatic maneuvering over the end of the British Mandate, the proposed partition of Palestine, and anticipation of a war with the Arab world. But this collection does more than merely capture this moment. It adds nuance and layers to a dominant discourse that too often suffers from overly simplistic, ahistorical, and context-free narratives about the history of Zionism, Israel, and the Arab-Israeli conflict.
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- [Israel] : Ḥerut, Detsember 1946.
- Language
- Hebrew
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