A FEMALE JOURNALIST REPORTER IN 1930s PALESTINE: DOROTHY KAHN BAR-ADON AND THE PALESTINE POST

The article follows the footsteps of the American Jewish newspaperwoman Dorothy Kahn Bar-Adon, who immigrated to Palestine in 1933 and became a central field reporter of the most important English-language newspaper in the country, The Palestine Post, owned by pro-Zionist proprietors. It explores how she transformed the newspaper over the years as a site of dialogue between the Jewish and the Arab societies, especially by her narrative journalism and her human-interest story angle, and how her writing in English–the language of the international power (Britain) designated by the League of Nations to administer the country, rather than in local languages–enabled her to propose a somehow distanced perspective on Palestine, while still promoting Zionism.