An exhibition of the Palestine Jewish press for the past 70 years will be opened in Tel Aviv on April 17th.
The list of exhibits runs to 1,100 papers which have appeared in 11 different languages.
At present there are four Jewish dailies in Palestine, the “Doar Hayom”, the “Haaretz”, and the Labour organ “Davar” which appear in Hebrew, and the “Palestine Bulletin”, which is published in English.
The “Kol Israel”, the Agudist organ, is a weekly, “Itoneinu”, a children’s paper, appears fortnightly, and the “Hamaccabee” and the “Hahed” are monthlies.
An exhibit of the Jewish press of Palestine was included in the Jewish Section at the International Press Exhibition held in Cologne in May to October 1928. A special Jewish Exhibition building bearing on the gates the inscription “Jewish Pavilion” in German, Hebrew and Yiddish, and the tower surmounted by a shield of David, was erected to house the Jewish exhibits. Dr. Bodenheimer, a prominent Zionist, was Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Jewish Pavilion, and a special exhibit was arranged by the Zionist Organisation in conjunction with the Keren Hayesod and the Jewish National Fund.
The Exhibition showed the development of the Jewish press from its beginnings. The Jewish Telegraphic Agency had a special stand at the Exhibition.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
