Item Summary

Irgun announcement of the charges and verdict against two British spies, held in an Irgun-run prison and tried in an Irgun-administered court. The prisoners, Clifford Martin and Mervyn Paice, worked for the British Army Intelligence Corps. They were captured by the Irgun in response to the death sentences imposed on three Irgun fighters after the Acre prison break, Avshalom Haviv, Yaakov Weiss, and Meir Nakar, executed on July 29, 1947. The next day, the Irgun executed Martin and Paice. The executions sparked anti-Jewish riots in Britain, and were widely condemned by the main Jewish institutions in the Yishuv and by David Ben-Gurion himself. The mainstream labor Zionist military organization, the Haganah, attempted to find and rescue the British prisoners. Nonetheless the execution, known as the Sergeants Affair, is credited with finally breaking the British will to remain in Palestine.

Descriptive Information

Title
רק כך : הודעה / בית הדין של הארגון הצבאי הלאומי בארץ-ישראל.
Transliterated Title
Raḳ Kakh : Hodaʻah / Bet ha-Din shel ha-Irgun ha-Tsevaʼi ha-Leʼumi be-Erets-Yiśraʼel.
Call Number
oversize DS119.2 .C64f box 2 item 138
Identifier
ark:/88435/dcmg74r195g
Publisher
[Israel] : Irgun, [July 1947].
Language
Hebrew
Date Created
1947
Format
Book
Extent
1 leaf ; 33 x 21 cm
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Princeton collection of publications of Jewish underground organizations from pre-state Israel, 138.0.

Discovery Information

Subject
Irgun tsevaʼi leʼumi
Jews—Palestine—History—20th century
Israel—History, Military—20th century
Palestine—History—1917-1948

Physical Characteristics

File Count
2

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/63364927-a149-425d-a8c8-043da5af26b4/manifest