Eighth Event in Gallery Talk

Building a State out of Newspaper

The Role of the Press in the Founding of the State and the War of Independence

  • Thursday
  • May 29th
  • 18:30 - 20:00
The National Library of Israel, #1 Eliezer Kaplan St., Jerusalem
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A close-up examination of the course of the Eretz-Israel press in the 1940s, and its critical role in shaping the society and its mechanisms en route to the establishment of the state and in the years that followed.

This Gallery Talk is sponsored by Rosalie and Richard Alter, in memory of their dear friend David Kolitz

Eyal Miller is the Manager of the Historical Jewish Press Project at the National Library of Israel.

A News Stand covered in old Newspapers, black and white, old newspapers
Meitar Collection, The Pritzker Family National Photography Collection, The National Library of Israel