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E-book Writing Palestine 1933-1950

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This is the first, and most prominent account of the work of journalist Dorothy Kahn Bar-Adon. Kahn was born in 1907 to an assimilated Jewish Reformed family in Philadelphia. The Kahns later moved to Atlantic City, already then a lively and thriving beach resort. In her early and continuing concern for social justice, Dorothy Kahn was much like other children of immigrant Jewish parents. That said, she was met with “mixed” responses from gentile classmates when they realized she was Jewish; she herself joined a Christian (one might even say anti-Jewish) high school sorority. Meanwhile, her own family, or at least her sister, did not particularly like Jews. In a 1937 letter describing a working trip to Poland, Kahn admitted her own discomfort with some Orthodox religious practices.But in 1933, after a few years working for the Atlantic City Press, the increasingly Jewish-identified Kahn moved to Palestine. With letters of introduction to some powerful Israeli pioneers, including the founder of The Palestine Post, Kahn had managed to secure a visa to Palestine. She described being the only woman writing for the English-language Palestine Post (later called The Jerusalem Post). Except for her self-effacing modesty, Kahn was not like most mid-twentieth century women and was drawn to journalism. She became a pioneer not by facing down sexism in journalism, or in the newsroom specifically, but by negotiating the major challenges as well as the minor frustrations confronting the settlers of Palestine—especially the “N.C.,” the New Comers’ community, as it was known. She immediately embraced the multitude of tasks: people had essentially cre-ated a new language for conversation (Kahn learned Hebrew once she got there) and were still creating new ways of finding self-esteem (espe-cially in agriculture and other physical labor) and new ways of organizing social and religious life. Kahn proceeded to dig into her new life, literally. She described that grand experiment with grace and a sense of humor in her staff-written and freelance articles, publicity materials, letters, and her autobiography. She adamantly denied that she and the others were idealists, however. Instead, they were realists, building a real home for a people who really needed it.Two years after her arrival, Kahn renounced her United States citizen-ship and became a citizen of Palestine. As Kahn put it, Palestine was less a country than a weak, unstable ward of the League of Nations. Nonetheless, her theory was that the only answer to anti-Semitism is Semitism—albeit a Semitism recognizing that Arabs and Jews were Semitic cousins. Indeed, Kahn was less offended by Arabs who openly hated Jews than by Americans or Europeans who disliked Jews for the size of their noses or who alleged that Jews are dirty or wily or were the power behind the financial crisis in America. Arabs had a more straightforward, and even more plausible, reason for disliking Jews: they regarded Jews as invading their country.

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904.5694 BAR w

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USA : Academic Studies Press., 2016

Deskripsi Fisik

290 hlm

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English

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9781618114969

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904.5694

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text

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computer

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online resource

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