FALASTIN (PALESTINE NEWSPAPER) A BOUND VOLUME OF 99 ISSUES

99 issues bound in one volume, folio (475 x 333mm.), later buckram, some paper toning, occasional fraying, sold as a periodical

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate
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NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF BUSINESS PRINTED IN THE SALE CATALOGUE."

THE RARE ENGLISH-LANGUAGE ISSUE OF THE MOST PROMINENT PALESTINIAN NEWSPAPER OF ITS DAY, INCLUDING A PUBLISHED LETTER BY EINSTEIN. The Arabic version was founded in 1911, while the English edition ran from September 1929 until May 1932. Present in this volume are year 1, issues 1–51 and year 2, issues 1–33, 35–39 and 41–50. The newspaper is notable, among other things, for the publication of a letter by Albert Einstein (1 February 1930): “I deplore the sad events of last August [the Palestine riots] not alone for revealing human nature in its lowest form, but also for the reason that they alienated the two peoples from each other and for a time, rendered difficult the access to one another which nevertheless must be found”. WorldCat lists only 3 locations for this English edition: National Library of Israel, Princeton, and the Library of Congress.