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Eyal Chowers
In the summer of 1937, the Yishuv − the Jewish community in Mandatory Palestine − was in uproar over the Peel Commission’s publication of its conclusions concerning the Arab-Jewish dispute in the country. For several decades the Zionist movement’s political vision remained vague, with the very revival of Jewish nationalism still in doubt. However, in the 1930s, Jews fleeing Europe’s darkening skies...
