Item Summary

Irgun-published newspaper titled Herut ("Freedom"). The lead front-page article memorializes Shlomo Ben-Yosef, the first Jew executed by the British. His execution took place on June 30, 1938. He was arrested, charged, and sentenced for a failed attempt to ambush an Arab bus in retaliation for the ambush and killing of Jews at the same site. His execution caused outrage across the Jewish community in Mandate Palestine and the world, and galvanized support for Jewish military defense.

Descriptive Information

Title
חרות : עתון חפשי : גליון כ"ט, י"ז תמוז תש"ד = 9 יולי 1944
Transliterated Title
Ḥerut : ʻIton ḥofshi : gilayon 29, 17 Tamuz 704 = 9 Yuli 1944.
Call Number
oversize DS119.2 .C64f box 2 item 108
Identifier
ark:/88435/dct722hq62k
Publisher
[Israel] : Irgun, July 1944.
Language
Hebrew
Date Created
1944
Format
Book
Extent
[4] pages : illustration ; 35 x 25 cm
Gilayon 29 ( 17 Tamuz 704 = 9 Yuli 19440
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Princeton collection of publications of Jewish underground organizations from pre-state Israel, 108.0.

Discovery Information

Subject
Ben-Yosef, Shelomoh -1938
Irgun tsevaʼi leʼumi
Irgun tsevaʼi leʼumi—Periodicals
Jewish-Arab relations
Jews—Palestine—History—20th century
Israel—History, Military—20th century
Palestine—History—1917-1948

Physical Characteristics

File Count
6

Institutional Information

Collection
Underground Publications and Ephemera Printed in Palestine at End of the Palestine Mandate
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/f74cb0ac-ae4e-4ab7-9f0a-595e1369150d/manifest