Collection of Rare Booklets on the Topic of Education – Palestine 1916 – 1942

a. Peoples university "Achad Haam" Tel Aviv – learning program summer 1928, Techia printers, Tel Aviv 1928.
The booklet is stamped with the stamp "Department of Education, Government of Palestine".
In the booklet is a detailed learning program of the university, divided according to fields and faculties. On the back cover are the rules for students.
8 pages.
Very interesting booklet!
Condition: Very Good.
b. Jewish non-religious education – can it be? Joseph Bentwich, Tel Aviv 1943.
In the booklet is an article which was published in the Haaretz newspaper in 1943, and re-printed by itself in the same year.
The booklet deals with the question of Jewish education in Israel without keeping mitzvoth, and comes to the conclusion that Jewish education in Israel must come with a commitment to mitzvoth, from both the teachers and the pupils, even in the elementary schools which are not connected to the Mizrachi or the Hareidim.
The author, Joseph Bentwich (1902 – 19820) was appointed in the same year as the deputy head of the department of education of the mandate government, and served in this position until the establishment of the State of Israel.
6 pages.
The booklet is not found in the national library.
Very rare.
Condition: very rare.

c. Hebrew Teachers' College of Jerusalem, New York 1925, with photographs.
A booklet in English, whose purpose is to solicit money to build a building for the Hebrew Teachers' College of Jerusalem (later David Yellin College). The booklet is accompanied by pictures of grades who finished their studies in the above mentioned college, and many pictures of the plans for the new building, and a description of its goals.
On the cover is an impressive logo of the intended building, combined with the seven-branched menorah.
30 pages.
Condition: Very Good.
d. Memorandum of the Hebrew College Herziliah
Memorandum in English from the Hebrew College Herziliya in Tel Aviv. Published by the publishing house "Achdut", Tel Aviv.
The memo contains a bit of the history of the gymnasium, its aims, the way it is organized and its current situation in this year.
7 pages.
Condition: Very Good.
e. The History of the Lemmel School in Jerusalem, Isaah Press, Jerusalem, 1936, with Photographs.
On the first page of the booklet is written that the booklet was published "in a thousand exemplars" in the Eretz Yisrael printing press.
The booklet brings the history of the Lemmel school – the largest of the elementary schools in Jerusalem at that time, in rich and pleasant language.
The booklet contains very interesting photographs of the school.
40 pages.
Condition: good – Very Good. Some of the pages are detached from the cover.
f. The teaching of Tanach (Bible) in Elementary and High Schools, Shlomo Dov Goitein, Jerusalem 1942.
Ways of teaching Tanach in the revived land of Israel.
The author, Professor Shlomo Goitein (1900 – 1985) was one of the foremost historians of Jewish Islam, and one of the greatest researchers of the Cairo Geniza.
118 pages.
Condition: Very Good.
g. Educational Institutions in the years 1923 - 1925 - A Statistical List, Chaim Dov Shachar, 1926.
Published by the Ministry of Education of the Zionist leadership in Israel.
The booklet contains statistical listings of all of the educational institutions in Israel in the years 1923 – 1926 and shows the growth in the field in those years.
The booklet was arranged by Chaim Dov Shachar, the secretary of the Department of Education of the Zionist management.
24 pages.
Condition: Very Good.
h. The Problem of Education in Palestine, Dr Ben Zion Mossinson, Tel Aviv 1923.
Published by the Teachers Union in Palestine, printing press "Aitin Shoshani" Tel Aviv. The booklet is an English translation of an article by S, Wassey.
The booklet deals with the problem of the non-uniform education in Palestine, and in its various schools.
The author of the booklet, Dr Ben Zion Mossinson (1878 – 1942) was one of the founders of Tel Aviv and the principal of the Hebrew College Herzaliya.
42 pages.
Condition: Very Good.
i. Hebrew Education in Palestine, Leon (Aryeh) Simon, London 1916
The booklet was published by "The Zionist" (the Zionist Federation) in London.
The booklet deals with the Jewish education in Palestine in the period of the end of the rule of the Ottoman Empire.
The booklet was written by Leon (Aryeh) Simon (1881 – 1965), a Jewish Zionist author and translator, who helped to write the wording of the Balfour Declaration.
12 pages.
Condition: Very Good.