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British Pathe Newsreel Releases Hundreds of Newsreels of Palestinian Jews

By Steve

Posted on April 21, 2014

british pathe newsreel:The giant newsreel archive, British Pathé, released its entire collection of 85,000 films to the public this week.

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Israel’s Picture a Day site reports:

Elder of Ziyon

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The giant newsreel archive, British Pathé, released its entire collection of 85,000 films to the public this week.

The films, dating from 1896 to 1976, include hundreds of newsreels from Palestine prior to the establishment of Israel in 1948. We found of particular interest the films of combat between British and Turkish forces during World War I and the brave attempts to push desperate Jewish refugees from Europe past British barriers in the 1930s and 40s.

We present here several of the exciting films now on the British Pathé YouTube collection. Many of the newsreels are silent films.

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Video: Dedication of Hebrew University and speech by Earl Arthur Balfour (1925)

Tel Aviv Jews protest British White Paper in 1939:

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Back to the Land (1939)

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Jews building a new village (1939)

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Rosh Hashanah 1946 in Palestine:

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UN Session on Palestine (1947)

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The Arabs Declare Holy War (after partition vote – 1947)

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Video: 1929 disturbances against Jews, a crude Jewish barricade, and the arrival of a

British naval ship in an attempt to restore order.

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Item title reads – Thousands of American Jews take part in [1929 “monster”] demonstration before offices of the British Consul, demanding protection for their kinsmen in Palestine. New York, U.S.

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