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Lot #
10189
Auction End Date
4/19/2005 12:45:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
Title Information
Title (English)
Palestine Partition Commission
Title (Hebrew)
Summary of Report
Author
[Zionism] [The Woodhead Commission]
City
[London]
Publication Date
[1938]
Collection Information
Independent Item
This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
Description Information
Physical
Description
Only edition. 11 pp. plus two foldout maps, light age staining. A very good copy bound as published.
Detailed
Description
The Woodhead Commission was appointed on Jan. 4, 1938, to recommend boundaries for the Arab and Jewish areas and the enclaves to be retained permanently or under British Mandate as proposed by the Peel Commission. In effect it reported that Partition was impracticable. The idea of partitioning western Palestine between Jews and Arabs was first broached officially in 1937 by the Palestine Royal Commission as a method of enabling each nation to exercise sovereignty and achieve its principal national aims in part of the country while maintaining a British foothold centered in Jerusalem. The proposal was at first approved by the British government and accepted in principle, after a vigorous controversy, by the majority of the yishuv and the Zionist movement. The British withdrew their support, however, after the Palestine Partition Commission (the Woodhead Commission) had failed to produce a "practicable" partition plan, and instead adopted in 1939 the White Paper policy, which would ultimately have created an independent Palestinian state with a permanent Arab majority.
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:
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Location
England:
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Israel:
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Subject
History:
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Characteristic
First Editions:
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Language:
English
Manuscript Type
Kind of Judaica
