Online Auction 021 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture

Collection of Books – Reports and Memorandums about the Jewish Yishuv in Palestine during the British Mandate – London and Jerusalem, 1920s-1940s

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Collection of booklets, most of them reports and memorandums issued by the British authorities in mandatory Palestine. London and Jerusalem, 1921-1944. English and some Hebrew.
The collection contains 18 booklets (most of them bound together in three volumes) with reports issued by the Mandate authorities in Palestine and submitted to the British government; reports issued by the British government submitted to the council of the League of Nations; memorandums issued by the office of the colonies and by the Chief Rabbinate and the National Institutions in Palestine, dealing with the prayer arrangements and the status quo between Jews and Muslims at the Western Wall; and more.
Some of the booklets contain maps of Palestine, diagrams and tables.
Among the booklets:
* An Interim Report on the Civil Administration of Palestine, by Lord Herbert Samuel. London, 1912.
* "Palestine, a report of the High Commissioner about the government of Palestine during 1920-1925" (Hebrew). Jerusalem: Azriel press, 1925.
* Erets Yiśraʼel li-fene kes ha-amim (Hebrew). Jerusalem: "Hasolel", [1925].
* Report by His (Britannic) Majesty's Government… To the Council of the League of Nations on the Administration of Palestine and Trans-Jordan. Eight reports issued by the British government and submitted to the council of the League of Nations and which review the administration of Palestine and Trans-Jordan. London, 1927-1935.
* The Western or Wailing Wall in Jerusalem, Memorandum by the Secretary of State for the Colonies. London, 1928.
* Memorandum on the Western Wall, submitted to the special commission of the League of Nations on behalf of the Rabbinate, The Jewish Agency for Palestine, The Jewish Community of Palestine (Knesseth Israel) and the Central Agudath Israel of Palestine. 1930.
* And more.
18 booklets (16 of them bound together in three volumes). Size and condition vary. The booklets were not thoroughly examined and are offered for sale AS IS.
Palestine, British Mandate and Underground Movements, the State of Israel
Palestine, British Mandate and Underground Movements, the State of Israel