The Struggle for Suffrage in Mandatory Palestine
by
Margalit Shilo
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Following the Balfour Declaration and the British conquest of Palestine (1917–1918), the small Jewish community that lived there wanted to establish an elected assembly as its representative body. The issue that hindered this aim was whether women would be part of it. A group of feminist Zionist...