Memorandum on the “Report of the Commission on the Palestine Disturbances of August 1929.”

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London : The Jewish Agency for Palestine, May 1930. Octavo, original printed grey wrappers (sunned along spine and with a couple of insignificant marks), pp 111; internally clean and bright, a near fine copy. A rare Zionist publication issued as a response to the Shaw Commission Report of March 1930 on the riots that erupted in Palestine during August 1929, when long-standing tensions between Arab Muslims and Jews came to a head. Mr. Leonard Stein was for nine years Political Secretary to the Zionist Organisation; he was one of the representatives of the Jewish Agency before the Commission of Enquiry into the Palestine Disturbances of August, 1929; he is at present Honorary Legal Adviser to the Jewish Agency for Palestine. (from the Foreword, by Ch. Weizmann, President of the Jewish Agency for Palestine). The 1929 Arab riots in Palestine, or the Buraq Uprising (Arabic: ثورة البراق‎, Thawrat al-Buraq), also known as the 1929 Massacres, (Hebrew: מאורעות תרפ ט‎, Meora ot Tarpat, lit. Events of 5689 Anno Mundi) refers to a series of demonstrations and riots in late August 1929 when a long-running dispute between Muslims and Jews over access to the Western Wall in Jerusalem escalated into violence. The riots took the form, for the most part, of attacks by Arabs on Jews accompanied by destruction of Jewish property. During the week of riots from 23 to 29 August 133 Jews were killed by Arabs. Between 198–241 others were injured, a vast majority of whom were unarmed. At least 116 Ara

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