Auction 012 Online Auction - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
Jan 9, 2018 (Your local time)
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Three Anti-Zionist Booklets - "The World State Volunteers" - Jerusalem, Late 1930s

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Three booklets printed on behalf of "The World State Volunteers" organization, which operated in Palestine during the British Mandate against establishment of a Jewish State. Oxford and Jerusalem, [ca. late 1930s]. English.
1. Purpose and Constitution, Oxford, [ca. late 1930s]. A brochure detailing the goals of the organization and its ideology. Folded leaf ([4] pages), 20 cm.
2. Second Report on Palestine, a booklet with conclusions of a report composed by this organization, calling the Jews to abandon their plan to establish a state in Palestine, and calling to establish an Arab state with a Jewish minority. Printed in Jerusalem, [ca. late 1930s]. 8 pp, 22 cm.
3. Speech by Mr. James Ashton to the Palestine Partition Commission in Public Session at Jerusalem on June 22nd. 1938. Printed in Jerusalem, [ca. 1938]. 11, [1] pp, 21.5 cm.
Enclosed: A critical article by the journalist Zvi Zinder about the operations of this organization and its head. Typewritten and dated in print: 8.6.1938.
Condition varies. Good overall condition. Stains, creases and folding marks. Handwritten inscription on first page of two booklets (in pencil). Tears and open tears at margins of one booklet.
Two booklets are not in NLI.

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