Tag: British Mandate

"Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict" by Oren Kessler, an American-Israeli author, won the prestigious Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature for its exploration of the events between 1936 to 1939 in historic Palestine.
"Mandate" by Nissan Shor is an alternate history novel where the state of Israel was not established in 1948 and Zionism was defeated.
The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem is a popular Israeli TV series based on a bestselling novel, but it has been criticized for being melodramatic, culturally inappropriate, and politically biased.
Dr. Leah Gilula, a theater studies scholar, talks about the boundaries of satire in pre-state Israel during the British Mandate period and its role in shaping Israeli culture.
In "Up in Arms," the discussion revolves around the history of Jewish terrorism in Israel, spanning from the Mandate period to contemporary times.