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Single issue satirical journal parodying Zionist politics in the mandate period. The primary subject, or target of this issue is the meeting of the nineteenth Zionest Congress held in Lucerne on Aug. 20–Sept. 4, 1935. The cover has an illustration of contemporary politicians waltzing to a band with the title the coalition dance to the music of ha-Mapais. The journal is made up of cartoons, parodies, articles, and advertisements all reflective of the politics of the time, but also of Jewish society in the mid-thirties. One versified parody is entitled, thus says the badchan at the ridkud mizvah. Among the cartoons is one of a beauty contest of the candidates. An example of the articles is one headed chocolate, alcohol, and the beloved.
The nineteenth Zionest Congress, was distinguished by the comprehensive and practical lectures delivered on Diaspora Jewry (Sokolow), the building of Palestine (Ben-Gurion), the JNF (Ussishkin), rescuing Jewish children from Germany - Youth Aliyah (Henrietta Szold), and the problems of Hebrew culture (Berl Katznelson). The labor faction, the largest at the Congress, worked out a program for a broad coalition and made it possible for Weizmann to resume the presidency, and Sokolow was chosen as honorary president of the Organization and the enlarged Jewish Agency. Ben-Gurion, who was reelected to the Executive, became more and more its central figure. |
