The Baltimore News. “120 to 150 Jews Die in Riots; Famine Menaces Jerusalem”

AUCTION 19 | Tuesday, March 11th, 2003 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts and Works of Graphic Art

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Lot 133
(LAND OF ISRAEL)

The Baltimore News. “120 to 150 Jews Die in Riots; Famine Menaces Jerusalem”

Printed Newspaper Broadsheet. Complete in twenty-six pages Lightly browned and brittle at edges. Folio

Baltimore: Tuesday, August 27th 1929

Est: $300 - $500
PRICE REALIZED $450
Below the bold headline: “With more than 100 Jews and an undetermined number of Arabs dead, the inter-racial rioting between Moslems and Hebrews continued today, even the presence of a large force of British trops being ineffectual in quelling the disturbances. The situation is becoming more serious hourly as the Moslem hordes apparently are unaffected by the presence of British troops and are continuing their attacks upon Jewish residents of the villages surrounding Jerusalem”