Our Population in the Land by Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, published by the Executive Committee of the Youth Union and the World Center of HeHalutz, in cooperation with the Central Bureau of the Jewish National Fund. Warsaw, 1929. Volume I (the second volume dealt with the Arab inhabitants of the Land).
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi’s important work on the composition of the Jewish population in the Land of Israel during the 1920s, with detailed reference to each ethnic community – the occupations of Sephardi and Ashkenazi Jews, distinctive dialects of each group, demographic breakdown of the communities across the cities of the Land, the formation of Ashkenazi and Sephardi settlements in Eretz Israel, the immigration of Yemenite Jews and their establishment in the country, the unique customs of each community, and more.
The book is accompanied by photographs of members of the various communities in their traditional dress, which Yitzhak Ben-Zvi (who would later become President of the State of Israel) received from the large and unique collection of Dr. Arthur Ruppin, as well as from materials provided by the “Sephardi Association” in the Land of Israel.
91, [4] pp. Good – very good condition.
