The Post-Standard · Syracuse, New York · 9 January 1947
CP-1947-023
Ire of Palestinian Jews Stressed in Book Review
Transcribed from the clipping
“Reasons for the fierce resentment of Palestinian Jews were presented by Rabbi Benjamin Friedman to the Women’s Alliance of May Memorial church yesterday afternoon. He reviewed a novel, ‘Thieves in the Night,’ by Arthur Koestler, which traces the fortunes of a young Jew among the new communities of Zionists. ‘They are in no mood to be trifled with,’ said the rabbi.
‘The greatest casualty in the war was the Jews. Of the 600,000 in Palestine, most came from Europe and probably half of them got in illegally. They arrived with bitter memories of 6,000,000 of their people exterminated.’ He illustrated the grim seriousness of life in Palestine by the fact that in all their papers and magazines there is no such thing as a comic section.
Rabbi Friedman recommended the reading of the book, but with the warning that some of its pictures may be overdrawn and should be accepted with caution. The reading would take eight hours, he said.”
Context added by this archive
Palestinian Jews again, in a church hall in Syracuse, five months before the partition vote.
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"Ire of Palestinian Jews Stressed in Book Review," The Post-Standard, 9 January 1947, p. 1. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1947-023. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1947-023
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