The Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle · Milwaukee, Wisconsin · 7 August 1925

CP-1925-014

88 Jews Left Palestine in May

Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Jerusalem

Transcribed from the clipping

“Two hundred and twenty-nine persons left Palestine permanently during the month of May… Of these 22 are Christians, 89 Moslems and 88 Jews. Many young Arabs of Nazareth are emigrating to America, due to the bad economic conditions prevalent there, according to the Arab paper, ‘Falastin,’ which complains that the Palestine government is taking no measures to prevent this emigration.”

Context added by this archive

Eighty-nine Moslems left. Eighty-eight Jews left. The headline names the eighty-eight. Nothing about that is improper — this is a community weekly and its readers’ interest is the Jewish figure, which sits one person below the larger number in the next sentence. It is the cleanest specimen here of the ordinary operation of a paper knowing who it is for. The question is what happens when every paper does that.

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"88 Jews Left Palestine in May," The Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle, 7 August 1925. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1925-014. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1925-014

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