PALESTINE RIOTS 1933 – Photographs of the demonstrations which took place in Palestine 1933. Palestine: Press & Publication Office Jaffa, Prop: Th. Sarrouf, 1934.

Very scarce Arab publication on the Palestine riots and their firm suppression by the British forces.

Oblong folio (242 x 349 mm.) Photographic illustrations throughout, in parallel English and Arabic. (Repaired marginal tears throughout.) Original printed wrappers, silk tie. (Repaired tears to edges, a few light creasefolds).

Following the rise in racial persecution in Nazi Germany in 1933, the numbers of Jewish immigrants to Palestine grew from a few thousand in previous years to 37,000. The series of Arab demonstrations in October 1933 occurred largely as a reaction to this increase. The second demonstration, held on October 29 across Jaffa, Haifa, and Nablus, saw the highest levels of unrest, with violence from the demonstrators leading British forces to disrupt proceedings with officers on horses and with the use of clubs and guns. It is thought that 29 protesters died and 180 were injured over the course of the month. After the introduction of the Nuremberg Laws in 1935 and the subsequent further rise in Jewish immigration, growing Arab unrest led ultimately to the Arab rebellion of 1936-1939. Theodore Sarrouf, the publisher of the album, states that his aim is for English readers to ‘form to themselves a clear and correct impression of the demonstrations held by the suppressed Arabs as a cry for justice in Palestine, this unfortunate part of the Arab World’.

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