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Hachomah
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Hachomah

Not on view
Date1945-07
ClassificationsNewspaper
Credit LineGift of the Gallery Educator Friends of the Museum
Object number2009.A.283
Object Description“Hachomah: [the wall] Inyenei Bitachon V’Haganah [issues of security and self-defense]” printed newsletter in Hebrew, dated July, 1945. Five column newpaper format with headline: Causes of the disturbance of security. A quote from the Zionist thinker, Berl Katznelson about interpreting Palestinian self-defense as self-defense for the entire Jewish people, is boxed at top left, parallel with the newsletter title. The article is an essay about the involvement of the Arabs in the security situation in Palestine, their training and arms supply by the British, and the need to be prepared to respond to organized, country-wide Arab terrorism.
Keywords
  • Hebrew
  • Palestine
NotesMay be a newsletter published by the Neturei Karta- see EJ 2nd ed., vol. 15 pp 114-115: Neturei Karta is a group of ultra-religious extremists who do not recognize the State of Israel. The group’s founders broke away from Agudat Israel in 1935. The newspaper Ha-Homah began to appear in 1944.
1946-08-13
Object number: 2009.A.282
1945
Object number: 2009.A.281
1946-05-13
Object number: 2009.A.280

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