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The Jewish Light Jerusalem, Israel: 1950–Present Weekly Started in 1923 in New York Kol Mevasser: Yiddish Russia (in 2019, Ukraine) Odessa: 1862-72 Supplemented Ha-Melitz: The Jewish Chronicle: English United Kingdom 1841–Present Longest running Jewish paper Jewish Telegraph: English 1950–Present Jewish Tribune (UK) English, Yiddish 1962 ...
' the Jewish Settlement in the Land of Israel ') was the community of Jews residing in Palestine prior to the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948. The term came into use in the 1880s, when there were about 25,000 Jews living in that region, and continued to be used until 1948, by which time there were some 630,000 Jews there. [ 1 ]
The White Paper of 1939 [note 1] was a policy paper issued by the British government, led by Neville Chamberlain, in response to the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine. [2] After its formal approval in the House of Commons on 23 May 1939, [ 3 ] [ note 2 ] it acted as the governing policy for Mandatory Palestine from 1939 to the 1948 British ...
In reaction to the White Paper, the Haganah built up the Palmach as the Haganah's elite strike force and organized illegal Jewish immigration to Palestine. Approximately 100,000 Jews were brought to Palestine in over one hundred ships during the final decade of what became known as Aliyah Bet .
The Israeli Declaration of Independence, formally the Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel [2] (Hebrew: הכרזה על הקמת מדינת ישראל), was proclaimed on 14 May 1948 (5 Iyar 5708), at the end of the civil war phase and beginning of the international phase of the 1948 Palestine war, by David Ben-Gurion, the Executive Head of the World Zionist Organization [a ...
Aliyah Bet (Hebrew: עלייה ב', "Aliyah 'B'" – bet being the second letter of the Hebrew alphabet) was the code name given to illegal immigration by Jews, many of whom were refugees escaping from Nazi Germany or other Nazi-controlled countries, [1] [2] and later Holocaust survivors, [1] [3] [4] to Mandatory Palestine between 1920 and 1948, [1] in violation of the restrictions laid out in ...
With narration by Richard Basehart and an original score by Israeli composer Marc Lavry, Let My People Go depicts the story of the efforts to create a homeland for the Jewish people, interweaving archival footage of such individuals and events reaching back to Theodor Herzl in 1897 at the First Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland.
Jewish refugees escorted out of Croydon airport, 1939. Whitehall and the Jews, 1933-1948, is a book by Louise London, first published by Cambridge University Press in 2000. [1] [2] [3] It has 313 pages, covering a preface, nine chapters followed by a conclusion, two appendices detailing biographical notes and Home Secretary and Home Office permanent under secretaries (1906-1950) respectively ...