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Article: Both the dove and the serpent: Hadassah's work in 1920s Palestine (1).
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- January 1, 2003
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ZIONIST HISTORIANS HAVE NOT LOOKED UPON THE 1920s for instruction or inspiration. They saw the Jewish community in Palestine/Israel as endangered, what with the Arab riots of 1921, uncertainties about the British mandate, and the failure of American Zionists to lead a large migration to Palestine. The decade's end with the August, 1929 Arab riots, resulting in the massacre of Jewish yeshiva students in Hebron as well as hundreds of dead and wounded elsewhere, confirmed the pessimism. (2) To add to the misery, an economic depression had begun in Palestine by the mid-twenties, before the start of the world-wide downturn. Therefore, historians writing about the 1920s and ...