Notebook with an account of a trip to Palestine

The notebook of Mania Żelazna (later Pozner), who emigrated to Palestine in December 1935, definitely taken from Poland, in which she described, on 4.5 pages, her travel experience. It is probably - the whole of it - a draft of a letter to her family. The beginning of the text/letter clearly indicates that it was written in Palestine shortly (though not straight away) after the author's arrival there - but not immediately after the arrival (probably in January 1936, although possibly at the end of December 1935): "Please forgive me that I did not write to you straight away but I really did not have time. Don't think that Palestine is just another country, you can't be idle here, wherever you are, you have to do something". A notebook with a blue cover with inscriptions written with a pen (including a signature, in two language versions, of Mania Żelazna), inside, there are three pages with text written with a pencil, from right to left - the text is in Polish, - but the direction and the order of the pages is characteristic of Jewish texts (the notebook was used by the author from page 4): the notebook was opened by the author from right to left and the text was written in that order of pages. Counting from the right: on page 1, adjacent to page 3, after the cover - there is a "multiplication table" printed on the so-called plain page and a table with operations, to the right, along the long edge of the pages (at the edges of the notebook, the cover), in three columns, there are measurements of length, weight and land; on page 2 (also the so-called plain), there is a decorative inscription written with a black pen, in the upper right corner: BELA, further on the right (however, some letters of the first word are under the above inscription) - "how do I know"; on page 3, the new page, a lined one - (a new loose lined page, because the opposite page had been taken out) - there is the beginning of the author's text, written with a pencil, continued on the reverse page; page 4 (new page, also a loose one), and on its reverse, the rest of the text on its reverse; and on the next page (- a new page, the opposite page of which was not taken out) - there is the end of the text, closed with a horizontal line (a similar line can be found over the third verse from the bottom) at the height of about half the page (the same line can be found over verse 3 from the bottom). The reverse is blank and so is the next page – the only lined page preserved on this side of the notebook. On the last page by the cover on this side – so called "plain" side – the cover side is printed in Polish (with, among others, the transmitter mark and the signature: RADIO/ PROTECTIVE BRAND, fifteen tables for entries and the information: Application filled at the Patent Office for no. 4258./2280.). On the left cover – there are, among other things, handwritten mathematical annotations and Hebrew notes.

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Information about the object
Author/creator
Pozner, Miriam (1912-1992)
Object type
diaristic material
Time of creation/dating
1935/1936
Created place
Israel (Asia)
Technique
printing
manual script
Material
paper
Keywords
Copyrights status
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Owner
POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews
Identification number
MPOLIN-A48.2.2