ARAB-JEWISH CO-OPERATION IN MANDATORY PALESTINE

ARAB-JEWISH CO-OPERATION IN MANDATORY PALESTINE
ARAB-JEWISH CO-OPERATION IN MANDATORY PALESTINE A group of 14 printed pamphlets, 5 press photographs and one manuscript relating to attempts to further Arab-Jewish co-operation within Palestine, in particular with regard to the notion of Bi-nationalism, comprising: Hebrew manuscript notebook, small 4° (200 x 155mm), 28pp, with contemporaneous records of meetings between Adil Jabr, Hayim Kalwariski and Moshe Shertok (later Sharett, first Israeli Foreign Minister, later second Prime Minister of Israel), with a 4pp. ms copy of a letter in English to the Jewish Agency in London, 1939-1941. [With:] VARIOUS AUTHORS. B'Shaat Chirum . [ In Time of Emergency. An anthology relating to the question of Zionist statehood and Jewish-Arab Co-operation ]. Jerusalem: September, 1940. 8° (240 x 154mm). 45, [2, ads] pp., text in Hebrew. (Heavily browned.) Stapled self-wrappers (soiled, browned and frayed). [With:] COHEN, Ahron and Eliyahu SASSON. Cyclostyled memorandum marked 'Secret' detailing the substance of a meeting between Kalwariski, Cohen and Shertok on 21 June 1943. Jerusalem: 22 June 1943. 2pp. (325 x 210), pinned at corner. (Browned and soiled.) [With:] COHEN, Ahron. Shroshei HaMishbar, Derachim L'Motza [ Roots of the crisis, ways to solution. ] Jerusalem: The League for Jewish-Arab co-operation, 1946. Very small 4° (152 x 118mm). 27pp. Text in Hebrew. (Heavily browned and brittle.) Original green printed wrappers (detached). [With:] THE LEAGUE FOR JEWISH-ARAB CO-OPERATION. Mitchav chozer . [ Circulated letter .] Jerusalem: 1942. 4pp. (210 x 150mm). (Browned and chipped.) [With:] THE 'BRIT-SHALOM' SOCIETY. Memorandum on an Arab policy for the Jewish Agency . Jerusalem: 1930. 8° (240 x 158mm). 16pp. Stapled self-wrappers. (Light soiling, staples rusting.) [With:] -- Jewish -Arab Affairs . Jerusalem: 1931. 8° (245 x 170mm). Original printed wrappers. (Wrappers worn). [With:] M. BUBER, J.L. MAGNES and E. SIMON (editors). Towards Union in Palestine . Jerusalem: Ihud (Union) Association, 1947. 8° (230 x 152mm). (Lacking wrappers, spine worn). Khalidi & Khadduri 1232 [With:] HASHOMER HATZAIR WORKERS' PARTY OF PALESTINE. The Case for a Bi-national Palestine . Tel Aviv: 1946. 8° (230 x 152mm). Original blue-green printed wrappers (upper wrapper detached). Khalidi & Khadduri 1233. With piece of ephemera loosely inserted reading: 'Partition or binationalism? This is the real choice before the Anglo-American Inquiry Committee. Read this now!', and 5 press photographs dated 1940-1948 showing Arab-Jewish cooperation. RARE PUBLICATIONS showing the work of the Arab academic Adil Jabr (1888-1953) in meeting prominent Palestinians in Iraq and with the Jewish Agency, as well as Hayim Kalwariski and Ahron Cohen's visits to Syria and Lebanon in 1942 to meet Arab leaders. The idea of a federation of bi-national states was proposed to both the AAC and UNSCOP (see lot 410), with the latter taking the proposal to the General Assembly in 1947, where it was rejected in favour of full partition, thus paving the way for the declaration of the independent state of Israel and the consequent Arab-Israeli War.