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Wraps. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Offered is an incomplete run of 21 issues of the "Jewish Newsletter: Independent Thinking on Jewish Problems" for the years 1953 (Volume IX, 9 issues) and 1954 (Vol. X, 12 issues) edited and published by William Zukerman out of New York City . The issues are three-hole-punched and collected in a two-piece Accopress Binder secured with a narrow metal clasp (the issues can be removed); pasted to the front cover is a label for The American Council for Judaism on which it is typed: "JEWISH NEWSLETTER - 1953-1954 - (Many issues missing)." The issues are left-folded, printed back-to-back, and contain four pages each, with the exception of Vol. IX No. 22 which contains six pages. The issues for the years 1953 and 1954 were published bi-weekly, so this collection contains 9 issues of approximately 26 published for 1953, and 12 issues of approximately 26 published for 1954. The issues present are as follows: Vol. IX No. 16 (August 3, 1953), 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, and 24 (December 7, 1953) and Vol. X No. 2 (January 18, 1954), 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 14, 15, 16, and 19 (October 4, 1954). Containing news and commentary, with occasional letters and book reviews, topics of commentary include: Theocracy Confirmed; Readers Forum: Are the Jews a People?; Repercussions of [Nahum] Goldmann's Speech; Israel - An Orthodox Theocracy; Tragedy of Terror ("The trial and conviction of thirteen young Jews in Israel on charges of terrorism has aroused little comment among Jews in America"); Arab-Israeli Cold War; Israel's Newest Problem - [Jewish] Returnees; one-paragraph letter from Norman Thomas (on the "Decline of Jewish Liberalism"); The Arab Refugees and the UN; The Right to Criticize Israel; letter from Dr. Israel Knox (on the 3000th anniversary of the founding of Jerusalem headlined "Celebration or Vulgarization?"); Moshe Smilansky: Israel's First Prophet; Is There Theocratic Marriage in Israel?; [David] Ben-Gurion's Resignation; Zionist Hysteria; The Deir Yassin Pogrom; American Jews and the Kibya Episode (on the Qibya massacre, a reprisal operation in October 1953 by Israeli troops under Ariel Sharon who attacked the village of Qibya in the West Bank and killed Palestinian civilians); Lament for Kibya [Qibya] by Dr. Israel Knox; American Jews and the Kibya [Qibya] Incident (with contributions and letters to the editor from Erich Fromm, Israel Knox, Norman Thomas, and others); A Visit to an Arab Refugee Camp by Morris S. Lazaron; [David] Ben-Gurion's Bombshell (regarding his letter to the Actions Committee accusing American Zionists of betraying Zionism on the ground that they are not immigrating to Israel in larger numbers); Is Israel a Religious State?; Conversions [of Jews to Christianity] in Israel; Antisemitism in Soviet Russia; Zionism in Disintegration; Histadrut [Israel's trade union movement] Under Fire; On the Brink of Catastrophe ("The tragic event in the Scorpions Pass [the Ma'ale Akrabim massacre, known in English as the Scorpions Pass Massacre] - where eleven Israelis were ambushed and killed - was a turning point in the profound internal struggle which had been going on between the extremist nationalists and liberal moderates since the Kibya raid last October"); Zionist Reaction to [Assistant Secretary of State Henry A.] Byroade's Speech; [David] Ben-Gurion is Prophet of Youth in Israel; Bankruptcy of Political Zionism; The Lesson of Birobidjan [Birobidzhan]; "Little War in Jerusalem" ("the recent three-day shooting in the Holy City in which twelve people, Israelis and Arabs, were killed and fifty-two wounded"); The Victory of an Israeli Pacifist (on Amnon Zichroni); American Jews and Israel: Discussion - Is Israel a Solution to Jewish Problems (with contributions by Dr. Elmer Berger and Emanuel Nowogrudsky); Balance Sheet of Year 5714; numerous other topics. The three-hole punches to the left margin area occasionally impact a portion of a word (which in most cases can be recognized by context).

Wraps. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Offered is a run of 22 of 24 issues of the "Jewish Newsletter: Independent Thinking on Jewish Problems" for the year 1958 (Volume XIV) edited and published by William Zukerman out of New York City . The issues are three-hole-punched and collected in a two-piece Advanco Pressboard Binder secured with a narrow metal clasp (the issues can be removed); pasted to the front cover is a label for The American Council for Judaism on which it is typed: "JEWISH NEWSLETTER - 1958 - (Missing: Nos. 13, 24)." The issues are left-folded, printed back-to-back, and contain four pages each. Published bi-weekly, with a hiatus each August, the issues present are as follows: Vol. XIV No. 1 (January 13, 1958), 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, [Missing 13], 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23 (December 15, 1958), [Missing 24, which was probably published on December 29). Containing news and commentary, with occasional letters and book reviews, topics of commentary include: [David] Ben-Gurion and Israeli Crisis; "Jewish-Christmas" (on Hanukah); Impressions of Israel by Norman Thomas; Statement of B'nai B'rith by Bernard Simon, Director of Public Relations (with a Reply by William Zukerman); A Decade of Dissent and Non-Conformity (on the "Jewish Newsletter"); What Prominent Americans Say About the "Jewish Newsletter" (with contributions by Basil Walters, Dr. Clarence E. Pickett, Erich Fromm, and Roger N. Baldwin); The Jewish Writer - Social Critic of Jewish Life by Alfred Kazin (complete in three parts in three issues of a speech delivered at a Conference of Jewish Writers); The Whip of Antisemitism ("No other word in the English vocabulary has been more misused by foes and friends alike than the word 'antisemitism'"); South African Jewry and Apartheid; Second Thoughts on Arab Unity; On the Whip of Antisemitism by Dr. Elmer Berger; The Problem of the American Council for Judaism; The Jewish World in Ferment; Are We at War with the Arabs?; two-paragraph letter from Dwight MacDonald; Zionism's Last Stand (with topics Clash Between Israelis and Zionists; Financial Crisis; Dilemmas of Immigration); Martin Buber at Eighty: Philosopher and Religious Zionist by Maurice Friedman; Zionist without Nationalist by Hans Kohn; The Conscience of the Jewish People by Hannah Arendt; Non-Jewish Jews by Isaac Deutscher (profiles); Israel's Balance Sheet on Its 10th Anniversary; The Problem of Power in Israel by Erich Fromm; Toward Better Relations Between Arabs and Jews; Israel's Military Parade; Old Zionism and Modern Israel by Martin Buber; Toward a Better Understanding Between Arabs and Jews ("A Plan for Settlement" by Arnold J. Toynbee; "Responsibility of Jews" by James P. Warburg; "Premises for an Agreement" by Herman A. Gray); Self-Ghettoization of American Jews: The Passing of the American Jewish Congress; Where the Boycott Leads (on the "boycott movement against American firms suspected of being friendly to the Arab States"); Arab Minority in Israel by Elias N. Koussa (Haifa); On the Boycott of American Firms by Dr. Elmer Berger; Israel and the Middle East Crisis; On Better Relations Between Arabs and Jews: The Moral Point of Departure by Fayez A. Sayegh; Israel Grows UP; On Creating Antisemites by Dorothy Thompson; Retreat from Socialism in Israel; Basic Issues in Arab-Israeli Controversy by Fayez A. Sayegh; Pope Pius XII and the Jews; Synagogue Bombings and "Aliyah"; The Guilty in the Kassim Crime [Kafr Qasim massacre ]; Hadassah and ZOA [Zionist Organization of America]; Mass-Murder on "Patria" - Anniversary of a Tragedy (on the SS Patria which was bombed on November 25, 1940 by the Jewish paramilitary organization Haganah); Boris Pasternak's Message to the Jews by William Zukerman; Arab Refugees - A Moral Problem: A Summary of a Tragedy; Toward a Racial State ("Shocking 'Anti-Goyism'"). The three-hole punches to the left margin area occasionally impact a portion of a word (which in most cases can be recognized by context).

Wraps. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Offered is a run of 23 of 24 issues of the "Jewish Newsletter: Independent Thinking on Jewish Problems" for the year 1959 (Volume XV) edited and published by William Zukerman out of New York City . The issues are three-hole-punched and collected in a two-piece Advanco Pressboard Binder secured with a narrow metal clasp (the issues can be removed); pasted to the front cover is a label for The American Council for Judaism on which it is typed: "JEWISH NEWSLETTER - 1959 - (Missing: No. 9)." The issues are left-folded, printed back-to-back, and contain four pages each, with the exception of Vol. XV No. 22 which contains six pages. Published bi-weekly, with a hiatus each August, the issues present are as follows: Vol. XV No. 1 (January 12, 1959), 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, [Missing 9], 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, and 24 (December 28, 1959). Containing news and commentary, with occasional letters and book reviews, topics of commentary include: On Christmas Observance by Dr. Elmer Berger; Strange Echoes of "Double Loyalty" (with topic Double Loyalty as Zionist Aim); news "Pogrom" on the Jews in Cuba; On A Racial State by Jacob B. Agus; Anti-Zionist Party in Israel (on the Jewish Labor Bund); The Bitter Truth about the Arab Refugees by Nathan Chofshi (Herzlia, Israel); Under the Mask of Humanitarianism by Norman Thomas ("The Rumanian government has suddenly reversed itself and is now encouraging, or rather forcing, the emigration of Rumanian Jews"); Sermon on Rumanian "Exodus" by Rabbi Richard E. Singer; A Burst Bubble ("The Zionist theory of 'Ingathering' through 'exoduses,' 'evacuations,' and 'liquidations' was administered during the last fortnight a series of staggering blows"); The Bishop of Galilee Speaks by G. Hakim (Maximos V Hakim born George Selim Hakim, leader of the Christian Arabs in Israel); news item Tragic End to Tragic Incident ("on the acquittal by a military court in Israel of Colonel Aluf-Mishne Shadmi, commander of Kafr Kassem [Kafr Qasim], of the murder of forty-seven Arab villagers"); Negro "Zionism" by Judge Jacob Panken; Exodus in Reverse (on Emigration from Israel); King Hussein and the Zionists; Zionists Oppose Jewish Immigration to USA: A Shocking Disclosure; Boycotts: Arab and Zionist; The "Kosher" Racket; The Dilemma of Jewish Philanthropy by Dr. Morris S. Lazaron; The Road to Betrayal (at the session of the Actions Committee - the Zionist General Council - on "the adoption of a proposal by Dr. Nahum Goldmann to re-organize the international Zionist body and pave the way for the admission of non-Zionist organizations friendly to Israel"); Mass Psychosis ("It is clear that Israel will not rest and will not let American Jews rest until a large mass-immigration movement of American Jews starts to Israel"); Arabs State Their Case (by Sam Salem; Elias N. Koussa; and Sami Hadawi); [David] Ben-Gurion's New Crisis; The Tide Against Shechita [Jewish ritual slaughter]; Spiritualizing Zionism; Revolt Against "Ingathering" ("The aftermath of the so-called 'race riots' in Israel which occurred in Wadi-Salib is greater than the events themselves"); Militancy at Casablanca (on the Arab League); "Newspeak" in World Zionism by Rabbi Jacob B. Agus; [Nikita] Khrushchev and American Jews; End the Jewish Cold War by Rabbi Morris S. Lazaron; Arab Anti-Semitism; The Election Campaign in Israel (in two issues: The Parties; The Issues); The Israeli Law of Return Backfires (with topics A Sanctuary for Criminals and Amending Nationality Law); Aftermath of the [Friedrich] Grunwald Incident; Results of Israeli Election (I. Behind Mapai's Victory and II. Awakening of Arab Minority); Arab Refugees - A Jewish Problem; Zionism Is Not Judaism; The Failure of a Plot (on the Presidents' Conference [Club], "a pet scheme of the fertile mind of Dr. Nahum Goldmann"). The three-hole punches to the left margin area occasionally impact a portion of a word (which in most cases can be recognized by context).

Wraps. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Offered is a complete run of 23 issues of the "Jewish Newsletter: Independent Thinking on Jewish Problems" for the year 1955 (Volume XI) edited and published by William Zukerman out of New York City . The issues are three-hole-punched (with most containing a fourth-hole punch) and collected in a two-piece Accopress Binder secured with a narrow metal clasp (the issues can be removed); pasted to the front cover is a label for The American Council for Judaism on which it is typed: "JEWISH NEWSLETTER - 1955." The issues are left-folded, printed back-to-back, and contain four pages each, with the exception of Vol. XI No. 14 which contains six pages. Published bi-weekly, with a hiatus during August, the issues are as follows: Vol. XI No. 1 (January 10, 1955) through 23 (December 19, 1955). Containing news and commentary, with occasional letters and book reviews, topics of commentary include: 1954 in American Jewish Life; German Rearmament and the Jews; For Zion's Sake by Hans Kohn; AJC Clarifies Position by John Slawson (Executive Vice-President of the American Jewish Committee); The Case of a Converted Chief Rabbi (on Eugenio Maria Zolli born Israel Anton Zoller); A Victory for American Policy in the Middle East (on the "recently announced treaty of mutual defense between Turkey and Iraq"); Behind [David] Ben Gurion's Return; Israel Returns to Retaliation ("Israel has made a clear and deliberate decision to return to the policy of military retaliation which it abandoned fourteen months ago, after Moshe Sharett took over the premiership. There is one modification: the Israelis evidently do not intend to go all the way back to the Kibya practice of retaliation against civilians"); Victory of an American Idea - Lessing J. Rosenwald; Strike Against Theocracy (on the hunger strike by Moshe Barak "in protest against the theocratic regime which does not allow him to marry the woman he loves because she is a non-Jewess"); two-paragraph Eye-Witness in Gaza by Alfred Lilienthal ("The recent attack of the Israeli armed forces on Gaza impels me to write to you"); American Jews and Israeli Theocracy by Justice Jacob Panken; The Anti-Zionist (with subtopics Zionist Theory of Antisemitism and The Bund's Answer to Antisemitism); two-paragraph letter from Arnold Toynbee; tribute to Albert Einstein (who is quoted as saying, in part, on April 17, 1938, "I should much rather see reasonable agreement with the Arabs on the basis of living together in peace than the creation of a Jewish state"); [Arnold] Toynbee, Israel and The Jewish Spirit: A Symposium; Israel On Its Seventh Anniversary; Adolph Held: A Good Man in a World of Hate; Anti-Zionists and Their Critics; The Price of Peace (with Egypt's Position and Israel's Position); A Fantastic Story (on Dr. Israel Kastner - also known as Rezs? Kasztner and Rudolf Israel Kastner); Arab States and Antisemitism; An Anti-Zionist Sees Israel: Impressions of a Journey in the Middle East by Dr. Elmer Berger; The Meaning of the Dulles Statement (on August 26 by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles); Middle East Crisis and American Jews (with commentary on the interview given by Premier Gamel Abdel Nasser of Egypt to the New York Post); Rumblings of War (which begins, "Moshe Sharett's first speech in the new Knesset, appealing to the Jews of the entire world to contribute to the fund to arm Israel against Egypt, came as a shock to many people who call themselves non-Zionists, and even to some Zionists who look upon Sharett as a 'Liberal'"); Armaments Race Will Not Lead to Peace: Interview with Dr. I. N. Steinberg [Isaac Nachman Steinberg]; War Hysteria in Israel and American Jews; Crisis in the Middle East As Seen by a Jewish Socialist - Interview with Judge Jacob Panken; [Zionist] Attempt to Muzzle American Press; War Hysteria by J.B.S. Hardman [Jacob Benjamin Salutsky]. The three-hole punches to the left margin area occasionally impact a portion of a word (which in most cases can be recognized by context).

Wraps. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Offered is a complete run of 23 issues of the "Jewish Newsletter: Independent Thinking on Jewish Problems" for the year 1957 (Volume XIII) edited and published by William Zukerman out of New York City . The issues are three-hole-punched and collected in a two-piece Advanco Pressboard Binder secured with a narrow metal clasp (the issues can be removed); pasted to the front cover is a label for The American Council for Judaism on which it is typed: "JEWISH NEWSLETTER - 1957." The issues are left-folded, printed back-to-back, and contain four pages each. Published bi-weekly, with a hiatus each August, the issues present are as follows: Vol. XIII No. 1 (January 7, 1957) through 23 (December 16, 1957). Containing news and commentary, with occasional letters and book reviews, topics of commentary include: Egyptian Jews on Brink of Disaster ("following the invasion and retreat from Sinai [Suez Crisis]"); Reappraisal in Israel (on the Suez Crisis: "Not only are the Israeli forces withdrawing from Sinai, but they will have to withdraw also from Gaza. Above all, Egypt and [Gamal Abdel] Nasser are now in a stronger position than they were before the invasion"); Echoes of a Pogrom ("Are atrocities committed against Egyptian Jews more shocking and inhuman than atrocities committed against Arabs in Kfar Quassam [Kafr Qasim], Tira and Taiba?"); Two Views of Secretary [Dag] Hammarskjold's Report (I. Sterile Legalism; II. Basis for Final Settlement); Toward Peace in the Middle East by Norman Thomas; Storm over Sanctions [against Israel] (with a quote from President Dwight Eisenhower: "Should a nation which attacks and occupies foreign territory in the face of United Nations disapproval be allowed to impose conditions on its own withdrawal? If we agree - then I fear we will have turned back the clock of international order"); Brotherhood in Action: The Life and Death of Raoul Wallenberg; Behind Israel's Withdrawal; Emigration from Poland - Zionism's Last Hope; Eye-Witnesses in Gaza ("One of the positive effects of the second Arab-Israeli War has been to lift somewhat the murky fog in which the Arab refugee problem has been enveloped almost completely for more than eight years"); Terror in Israel (on the assassination of Dr. Rudolph Kastner); Danger Signals (on the thirteenth annual conference of The American Council for Judaism); Jordan and Israel; Israel on Its Ninth Anniversary (with topics: I. Invasion of Egypt; II. The Revival of "Ingathering" [of the Exiles]); A Sham Revolution (on the American Jewish League for Israel); The [Dwight] Eisenhower Doctrine and Israel; The Paradox of Communist Anti-semitism; American Jews Criticize Israel; [American Jewish] Committee Under Attack; Israel and Diaspora Jews (two views: Norman Thomas and Herman A. Gray); Mixed Families in Israel; [David] Ben-Gurion's Credo and American Jews; New Trends in Arab-Israeli Relations; An Appeal in Behalf of "Kol Nidre"; The Sickness of American Zionism; Non-Zionist Reactions to [David] Ben-Gurion's Credo; Israel's "Messianic Mission"; Middle East Impressions - Summer 1957 by Don Peretz; Ban on Polish Emigration [to Israel]; one-paragraph "A Letter from Moshe Sharett" to The Jewish Newsletter (which reads, in part, "I was left wondering where you would be as an editor if there wasn't a State of Israel for you to serve it up to your readers boiled and grilled and roasted for breakfast, lunch and dinner?" with reply from William Zukerman). The three-hole punches to the left margin area occasionally impact a portion of a word (which in most cases can be recognized by context).

Wraps. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Offered is a complete run of 25 issues of the "Jewish Newsletter: Independent Thinking on Jewish Problems" for the year 1956 (Volume XII) edited and published by William Zukerman out of New York City . The issues are three-hole-punched and collected in a two-piece Advanco Pressboard Binder secured with a narrow metal clasp (the issues can be removed); pasted to the front cover is a label for The American Council for Judaism on which it is typed: "JEWISH NEWSLETTER - 1956." The issues are left-folded, printed back-to-back, and contain four pages each, with the exception of Vol. XII No. 17 which contains six pages. Published bi-weekly, with a hiatus during August, the issues are as follows: Vol. XII No. 1 (January 2, 1956) through 25 (December 24, 1956). Containing news and commentary, with occasional letters and book reviews, topics of commentary include: The New Year: A Review; Eight Years of the 'Jewish Newsletter'; The Middle East Crisis - I. By Norman Thomas, and II. By Emanuel Nowogrudsky; A Nation on Trial (on the Lake Tiberias raid); At the Security Council: A Rabbi's Thoughts and Impressions by Rabbi Morris S. Lazaron (in poem format: "Nationalism, like a cancer, destroys our integrity - Praiseworthy sentiments of Jewish brotherhood are poisoned - Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, ten for one!"); The Middle East Crisis Comes to American Jews; Arab Minority in Israel; Arms for Israel; The Faith of an Anti-Zionist; Syrian Antisemitic Propaganda; Israel After the Czech-Egyptian Deal; New International Antisemitic Conspiracy?; British Jews - On Their Tercentenary; The Dilemma of the American Jewish Committee by Dr. Elmer Berger; Arms or Peace; Post-Stalin Antisemitism; Protocols of the A.D.L. [Anti-Defamation League] by Dr. Morris S. Lazaron ("The Jewish counterpart of the 'Protocols of the Elders of Zion' has just appeared"); On the Brink of War; Failures of Zionism; Arab Minority in Israel; It Might Have Been: On the Occasion of the Eighth Anniversary of Israel by Morris S. Lazaron; Anti-Zionism and Antisemitism; Israel's Road to Peace (on I.F. Stone); Nationalism: Promise Turned Menace by Hans Kohn; Behind the [Moshe] Sharett-[David] Ben-Gurion Struggle; An Opportunity for Israel (on "The suspension of mass emigration of Moroccan Jews" - "The simple solution and opportunity is for Israel to open her doors for a limited number of Arab refugees to return to their lands and homes in place of the Moroccan Jews whom the ban keeps from coming"); The Meaning of [Moshe] Sharett's Dismissal; Bold and Imaginative by Norman Thomas; A Warning of Danger ("Public opinion in the United States, non-Jewish as well as Jewish, has been aroused of late by the flagrant attempt now being made by most Arab League States to extend their cold war against Israel to include all Jews, especially American Jews"); Egypt and Israel - A Change of Roles; Israelis Do Not Want More Arabs; An Arab Refugee State; Theocracy at its Worst; Arab States Imitate Israel; Why Israelis Leave Home; "Five Eyes for An Eye" ("on the latest Israeli military raid on Jordan"); Why Israel Is Criticized; Arab Discrimination Against American Jews: A Discussion; "THE ERUPTION IN THE MIDDLE EAST" ("The unbelievable has happened" - on the "march of Israel into the Sinai Province and the bombardment of the Suez Canal area by the Anglo-French forces"); A Bitter Victory; Deportations from Egypt; Bitter Harvest of Hate (on the Kafr Qasim massacre [Kfar Quassam] and assaults on two other Arab villages, Tira and Taiba, by Israeli Security Police over a breach of curfew). The three-hole punches to the left margin area occasionally impact a portion of a word (which in most cases can be recognized by context).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Offered is a bound copy containing 45 issues of the "Jewish Newsletter: A Weekly News Review for Independent Thinking on Jewish Problems" subtitled later in the year as "A Weekly Review of Events and Opinion of Jewish Interest - OUR PROGRAM: Independent, Liberal and Non-Party Thinking on Jewish Problems" for the year 1950 (Volumes IV and V) edited and published by William Zukerman out of New York City (there is no mention of "Jewish World News Service"). With a gold-embossed spine reading "JEWISH NEWS LETTERS - VOL. IV [Nos.] 1-26 - VOL. V [Nos.] 1-20 - 1950," the volume contains 25 of 26 issues Vol. IV (missing only one issue), and probable complete run of 20 issues from Vol. IV (possibly missing the last issue, No. 21, if an issue was published on December 29, 1950). With four printed pages each, and printed back to back, the issues are: Vol. IV #1 (January 1, 1950), 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, [missing 22], 23 [mis-numbered 22], 24, 25, and 26 (June 30, 1950); and Vol. V No. 1 (July 14, 1950), 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 (December 15), and 20 (December 22, 1950 - I am uncertain if Vol. V No. 21, which would have been dated December 29, was published). Containing news and commentary, topics of commentary include: Israel's Population Problem; Signs of Ghettoism in American Jewish Life; Religious and Nationalistic Fanaticism; Storm Over Religious 'Persecution' in Israel; Friction Between American and Israeli Zionists; The End of Polygamy and Child Marriage in Israel; On Hatred in Jewish Life; New Light on Soviet Yiddish Writers; New Trends in Christian-Jewish Relationship; Nostalgic Israel; Anniversary of the Revolt in the Warsaw Ghetto; Stock-Taking in Israel ("On the occasion of the Second Anniversary of the Establishment of Israel"); Did [David] Ben-Gurion Yield to American Zionists?; Suppressed Jewish News; Israel's Conciliatory Attitude Towards the UN; American Liberals and Israel; The Meaning of the Labor Zionist Convention; Arab-Israeli Border Friction Spreads; The 'Family Quarrel' at the ZOA [Zionist Organization of America] Convention; Korean War Shakes Israel; On Theocracy in Israel; [David] Ben-Gurion's "N.E.P." ["New Economic Policy"]; Israel and the Arab Refugees; The Jewish Woman; The Religious Bloc and the Israeli Crisis; Israel and Arab Expulsions; Towards a Solution of the Arab Refugee Problem; The Death of a Yiddish Daily Newspaper (on the London-based "Zeit"); The Militarization of Hanukkah; The Tenth Anniversary of a Crime (on the bombing of the SS Patria by the Jewish paramilitary organization Haganah); Christmas and the Jews; hundreds of other topics. "Goldberg" written to upper-front page of 13 issues.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Offered is a bound copy containing original material from 1948-1949 edited and published by William Zukerman and the Jewish World News Service out of New York City. With a gold-embossed spine stating "JEWISH NEWS LETTERS - VOL. II NO. 1 [through] VOL. III No. 15 [should state 16] - JAN. 7, 1949 [through] DEC. 1949]," the volume contains the following documents: 1) an early issue, unnumbered, of the "Jewish Newsletter" dated June 4, 1948 (five pages) published three weeks after Israel's Declaration of Independence (May 14) and subsequent invasion (May 15) by Egypt, Iraq, Jordan and Syria; 2) 44 different, original issues from 1949 of the "Jewish Newsletter" (comprising Volumes II and III, missing only two issues); 3) six special news releases published in 1949, issued separately from the "Jewish Newsletter"; and 4) a typed and signed letter dated October 1, 1949 from William Zukerman to Rabbi Dr. Elmer Berger, Executive Director of the American Council for Judaism. *ONE* - Jewish Newsletter dated June 4, 1948 containing five pages with blank verso (including "A Letter from Israel," which begins, "Your letter arrived when a band of Arabs attacked our 'Kwutza.' Throughout the week we fought day and night. On our side there were dead and wounded, and on the Arab side there were 150 casualties"); *TWO* - Volumes II and III containing 44 issues of the "Jewish Newsletter" (variously subtitled) with earlier issues printed on one side (with blank verso) and later issues printed on both sides; 4 printed pages each, with one issue 5 pages, as follows (missing only two issues): Vol. II - No. 1 (January 7, 1949), 2, [missing 3], 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, [missing 12], 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26 (July 1, 1949); four subsequent issues numbered Vol. III No. 1 (July 8), 2 (July 15), 3 (July 22), 4 (July 29), and one un-numbered issue (August 26, 1949) printed on Jewish World News Service stationery - note that Vol. III No. 1 begins again in September with new content, as follows: Vol. III - No. 1 (Sept. 9), 2 (Sept. 16), 3 (Sept. 23), 4 (Sept. 30), 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 [Nov. 11, mis-numbered 8], 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 [Dec. 23, 1949 mis-numbered 15]; *THREE* - six news releases printed on "Jewish World News Service" stationery: two "Late News" (April 25, 1949, three pages; May 2, 1949, two pages); three "News from Around the Jewish World" (July 1, 1949, two pages; July 15, 1949, two pages; October 14, 1949, two pages, #102 - numbering most likely includes issues to date of the "Jewish Newsletter"); and "Jewish News Around the World" (November 4, 1949, one page, #105 - numbering most likely includes issues to date of "The Jewish Newsletter"); *FOUR* - typed and signed one-page letter dated October 1, 1949 from William Zukerman (signed in pen "Wm Zukerman") on Jewish Newsletter stationery to Rabbi Dr. Elmer Berger, Executive Director of the American Council for Judaism (ACJ) on various topics. With hundreds of topical headlines, the JEWISH NEWSLETTER contains news and comments about the new State of Israel, Jews in the diaspora, world opinion, controversies, personalities, and organizations. Specific topics include inter-marriage, the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, the Zionist Organization of America, the plight of Jews in the Soviet Union and eastern Europe, David Ben-Gurion, Israel's First National Election, theocracy in Israel, anti-semitism, Israel's political parties, the United Palestine Appeal, the Jewish press, the United Jewish Appeal, Dr. Chaim Weizmann, Count Folke Bernadotte, Arab refugees, Zionism, Nationalism, immigration, the United Nations, much much more. Written to the front cover of six issues are one or more names: "Goldberg," "Sidney Wallach," and "Dr. [Elmer] Berger.". Signed by Author(s).