Esther Carmel-Hakim is a lecturer at the University of Haifa. She is a researcher on women and women's organizations in the Zionist movement and in Israel; Carmel-Hakim has initiated internet sites and movies on women and regularly delivers public lectures on women trailblazers. Nancy Rosenfeld teaches in the English Studies Unit and in the Humanities Enrichment Program of the Max Stern College of Emek Yizreel (Jezreel Valley), Israel. She is the author of The Human Satan in Seventeenth Century English Literature: From Milton to Rochester (Ashgate, 2008), and has published articles on John Milton, John Bunyan, John Wilmot, second earl of Rochester, John Keats, Robert Graves and Siegfried Sassoon.

"Writing Palestine by Dorothy Kahn Bar-Adon takes the reader back to the seventeen most eventful years (1933 – 1950) in Mandatory Palestine and the beginning of the Jewish state. The author, a Jewish American-born journalist, wrote extensively about everyday life concerning all its aspects. The two editors of these unique documents, Esther Carmel–Hakim and Nancy Rosenfeld collected them from her private unknown archive and from the English daily The Palestine Post, later to become The Jerusalem Post. This book brings forth the noises, sights and feelings of these unforgettable years."

• Acknowledgements Editors' PrefaceForeword By Linda Steiner Chapter 1: Biography of Dorothy Kahn Bar AdonChapter 2: Zionism and immigration to PalestineChapter 3: The German Jews Conquer Tel AvivChapter 4: “Our cousins” – on the Arab Population of Mandatory PalestineChapter 5: Jerusalem: A City Not Yet DividedChapter 6: World War II – The Palestine Home FrontChapter 7: The Collective VillageChapter 8: Youth Aliya AfterwordSuggested ReadingGlossaryIndex

Esther Carmel-Hakim is a lecturer at the University of Haifa. She is a researcher on women and women's organizations in the Zionist movement and in Israel; Carmel-Hakim has initiated internet sites and movies on women and regularly delivers public lectures on women trailblazers. Nancy Rosenfeld teaches in the English Studies Unit and in the Humanities Enrichment Program of the Max Stern College of Emek Yizreel (Jezreel Valley), Israel. She is the author of The Human Satan in Seventeenth Century English Literature: From Milton to Rochester (Ashgate, 2008), and has published articles on John Milton, John Bunyan, John Wilmot, second earl of Rochester, John Keats, Robert Graves and Siegfried Sassoon.

"Writing Palestine by Dorothy Kahn Bar-Adon takes the reader back to the seventeen most eventful years (1933 – 1950) in Mandatory Palestine and the beginning of the Jewish state. The author, a Jewish American-born journalist, wrote extensively about everyday life concerning all its aspects. The two editors of these unique documents, Esther Carmel–Hakim and Nancy Rosenfeld collected them from her private unknown archive and from the English daily The Palestine Post, later to become The Jerusalem Post. This book brings forth the noises, sights and feelings of these unforgettable years."

• Acknowledgements Editors' PrefaceForeword By Linda Steiner Chapter 1: Biography of Dorothy Kahn Bar AdonChapter 2: Zionism and immigration to PalestineChapter 3: The German Jews Conquer Tel AvivChapter 4: “Our cousins” – on the Arab Population of Mandatory PalestineChapter 5: Jerusalem: A City Not Yet DividedChapter 6: World War II – The Palestine Home FrontChapter 7: The Collective VillageChapter 8: Youth Aliya AfterwordSuggested ReadingGlossaryIndex