Brooklyn Eagle · Brooklyn, New York · 18 January 1931
CP-1931-002
Money Printed in 3 Languages
In Palestine and, contrary to general belief, Jews and Arabs are friends, says Brooklyn man
Eleanore Levenson
Transcribed from the clipping
“Every coin and banknote, every street sign and official paper is printed in three languages—English, Arabic and Hebrew.” The traveller, Abraham I. Shiplacoff of the National Labor Committee for the Organized Workers of Palestine, describes an Arab village welcoming Jewish visitors after the 1929 riots: “The Arabs served the Jewish boys with coffee and spoke to them in a friendly fashion, but they couldn’t help asking, ‘Aren’t you afraid to come here?’ Another Arab standing by said, ‘Why should they be afraid? There are no Englishmen around.’” He also blames “the effendis, the Arabian feudal lords who exploit the fellaheens.”
Context added by this archive
A photograph in this piece is captioned “Mr. Shiplacoff center, and on his left Sheik Hassoun.” A Palestinian, named, in a Brooklyn paper in 1931. The piece also reaches for the arid-and-primitive language on its way there, which is how most of these arrive.
Cite this item
"Money Printed in 3 Languages," Brooklyn Eagle, 18 January 1931. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1931-002. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1931-002
Elsewhere in the archive
- Fear Economic DominationBrooklyn Eagle · 19 December 1926 · the same newspaper
- Press Silenced by HopelessnessBrooklyn Eagle · 19 December 1926 · the same newspaper
- Palestine’s Labor ProblemThe Jewish Press · 9 January 1931 · the same year
- Palestine Is Listing Her Landless ArabsOmaha World-Herald · 15 February 1931 · the same year
- Palestine Arabs Dismayed By Britain's Newest PolicyDaily Gleaner · 21 February 1931 · the same year
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