The 1930s

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The 1930s

1930 to 1939

Immigration rises as the Nazis take power. The Arab Revolt begins in 1936, and the White Paper of 1939 limits Jewish immigration.

TURNING POINTS

1933 Mordecai Ardon reaches Jerusalem. A former Bauhaus student, he directs the Bezalel school from 1940.

1933 to 1936 The Fifth Aliyah. More than 170,000 Jews flee Nazi Germany and Eastern Europe. Many are doctors, lawyers, musicians and architects.

1936 Apr 19 to 1939 The Arab Revolt. It protests Jewish immigration and British policy and lasts until 1939.

1938 Oct 2 The Tiberias massacre. Arab gunmen kill 19 Jews, 11 of them children, in the heart of the Arab Revolt.

1939 May 17 The White Paper. Britain sharply limits Jewish immigration and land purchases as the Holocaust begins.

1939 to 1945 The Holocaust. Six million Jews are murdered in Europe. Survivors seek refuge in the land.

ALSO IN THIS PERIOD

1930s Architects trained at the Bauhaus build the White City of Tel Aviv.

1930 Jul 13 Naomi Shemer is born at Kibbutz Kinneret.

1930 Oct The Passfield White Paper curbs Jewish immigration.

1931 Apr 16 The poet Rachel dies in Tel Aviv.

1931 The Irgun, an armed underground group, is founded.

1931 The Habima theater makes its home in Tel Aviv.

1931 The census counts about 175,000 Jews.

1932 Mar The first Maccabiah games open in Tel Aviv.

1933 Jun 16 Haim Arlosoroff is assassinated on a Tel Aviv beach.

1933 The Fifth Aliyah begins as the Nazis take power in Germany.

1933 Aug 25 The Haavara agreement lets German Jews move some assets.

1934 Aliyah Bet, illegal immigration by sea, begins.

1934 Jul 4 Hayim Nahman Bialik dies in Vienna.

1935 The poet Leah Goldberg settles in Tel Aviv.

1935 David Ben-Gurion becomes chairman of the Jewish Agency.

1935 Yehuda Amichai arrives from Germany as a child.

1935 Sep 15 The Nuremberg Laws strip German Jews of citizenship.

1936 Mar The Tel Aviv port opens after riots close Jaffa.

1936 Mar 30 The Palestine Broadcasting Service begins.

1936 The Palestine Symphony Orchestra, founded by Bronislaw Huberman, gives its first concert, conducted by Arturo Toscanini.

1936 Dec 9 A. B. Yehoshua is born in Jerusalem.

1936 Dec 10 The tower and stockade settlements begin at Tel Amal.

1937 Jul 7 The Peel Commission proposes partition. The Arab leaders reject it.

1937 Aug The Zionist Congress accepts the principle of partition.

1938 Jun Orde Wingate forms the Special Night Squads.

1938 Jul 6 to 15 The Evian Conference fails to open doors to Jewish refugees.

1938 Nov 9 to 10 Kristallnacht burns synagogues across Germany.

1938 Nov The Woodhead Commission shelves partition.

1939 Feb 7 to Mar 17 Summit: the London Conference fails to find agreement.

1939 May 4 Amos Oz is born in Jerusalem.

1939 Sep 1 The Second World War begins.