SIR HERBERT SAMU’EL, NETSIV YEHUDAH HA-RISHON: BIYOGRAFYAH VE-HA’ARAKHAH סיר הרברט סמואל, נציב יהודה הראשון: ביוגרפיה והערכה
Tel Aviv: Hotsa'at "ha-Yishuv" 1926. Item #43378
1st edition. Period boards with original printed paper wrappers bound in, 8vo, 11 + 127 pages. Includes illustrations. 22 cm. In Hebrew. Title translates as, “Sir Herbert Samuel, the First Governor of Judah: Biography and Assessment.”
Herbert Louis Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel (1870-1963) “was a British Liberal politician who was the party leader from 1931 to 1935.
He was the first nominally-practising Jew to serve as a Cabinet minister and to become the leader of a major British political party. Samuel had promoted Zionism within the British Cabinet, beginning with his 1915 memorandum entitled The Future of Palestine. In 1920 he was appointed as the first High Commissioner for Palestine, in charge of the administration of the territory” (Wikipedia).
Poleskin was born in the Ukraine in 1886 and relocated to Palestine in 1905, where he worked on some of the earliest kibbutzim, though he found himself exiled to America during the first world war. He returned to Palestine in 1920, and wrote as an overseas journalist for the Forverts.
SUBJECT(S): Statesmen -- Great Britain -- Biography. Zionism -- History. Hommes d'E´tat -- Grande-Bretagne -- Biographies. Politics and government -- History -- 20th century. Great Britain -- Politique et gouvernement -- 20e sie`cle. Grande-Bretagne --Middle East. OCLC: 19201104. Date stamp on final blank endpaper, toning as expected, Very Good Condition. (B) (Zion2-4-9-BECCMZZ-'lxgg).
Price: $200.00