Arizona Post · Tucson, Arizona · 4 July 1947
CP-1947-045
Palestine Tennis Stars To Compete In England
Palcor
Transcribed from the clipping
“PALESTINE TENNIS STARS TO COMPETE IN ENGLAND.
JERUSALEM (Palcor) — Three star Palestinian tennis players, Gertrude Kornfeld, Yehuda Finkelkraut and Mordecai Apel, have been accepted to compete in the Bristol Lawn Tennis Championship in England this year, according to a cable received by the Federation of Amateur Sports Clubs of Palestine last night from the entry committee of the Bristol contest.
The three players are also entered in the Wimbledon tennis matches.”
Context added by this archive
The earliest sport record in this archive, and it is worth reading for the word rather than the tennis.
In July 1947 Palestinian is a description of where a person is from, not of which people they belong to: the three players named — Gertrude Kornfeld, Yehuda Finkelkraut and Mordecai Apel — are Jewish, and the body that enters them is the Federation of Amateur Sports Clubs of Palestine.
Within two years the word would stop being available to everyone in the country and would attach to one people only.
Cite this item
"Palestine Tennis Stars To Compete In England," Arizona Post, 4 July 1947. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1947-045. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1947-045
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