The Denver Jewish news., 1920-10-13
SOMETHING NEW UNDER THE
SUN-FIRST ISSUE OF A d.
RECTORY FOR PALESTINE
Comprehensive Volume Gives Valu-
able Information OF Country

.IeruSalem.-FreSh from the press IS
the first edition of the palestine Di-
rectory" szeable volume o. DAG
pages, devoted, in the language of the
publishers, ito commercial, industrial,
administrative addresses with chief
attention to the commercial side of
life in the Holy Land. AS recently
arrived Zionist from America de
scribed it. nothing so visualiZes Pal
cstine. makes it so real. dispels the
hard, set notion that this is a land of
sentimentality and philanthropic sub
sides. In the preface written by the
publishers the purposes of the direc-
tory are set forth as to form first
link between Palestine and those coun-
tries which are DESTROYS of extending
their connections in this land destined
to wide development from every point
Of view which is little bit involved
as to syntax. though the idea itself is
clear enough.
Sixty pages. three columns wide.
and each column ten inches deep. are
devoted to the names, addresses and
advertisements of merchants and
professionals residing and doing
business in Jerusalem. .Jaffa. Haifa
I'll Mejdel. GAIA. Ramleh. Judd. Naz-
aretl. Acre. Nablous. TOul Karen, III.
herias. Safed and Djenine and rep
resenting the whole category of hu-
man c'ldeavor from almond growers
to dealers in worship articles y
study of this classified section re-
veals that there are only nine nrchi-
tects listed: on the other hand there
are A barristers. there are 81 stock
brokers. but no indication of n stock
exchange. unless the exchanging Is
done in either Jerusalem or Jaifn
Chambers of Commerce. In the whole
country there are only % wine anu IL
u,Ior dealers listed. but against these
there are. i5 confectioners and A. cof
fee bars. There are over dozen
corporate banks. including the Anglo
Egyptian Bank. the AnGlO-Palestinc
Pank. the Imperial ottoman Bank. the
Ranco lie Roma and the ubiquitous
Thos Cook: in addition there are an
also loan organizations. Journalism
seems to he lucrative profession in
Palestine. there being no less than II
editors listed. but an even more H.
crative vocation-is that of barber and
nairdresser of whom there are IS.
According to the directory. 153 physi-
clans have their shingles out. but 3a
of them are connected with the .ta!f
of the American Zionist Medical
Unit: this figure does not include p
dentists. of whom five are women.
Law evidently does not pay well i'll
Palestine. because in the whole coua-
try there are only A "bnrristers.
Under the caption of 'hotcls" one dis
covers that the tourist can be more
casily accommodated in .faffa with its
IL hostelries, or Haifa with eight
than In Jerusalem. which has only
SIX.
The usefulness of the directory i;
enhanced by the inclusion of the Ju'
liam. Arabic. Coptic and Jewish cal
cndars. money conversion tables from
Egyptian to English and French and
vice-versa. and the metric equiva-
lcnts of Egyptian weights and meas
urcs But it Is hard to understand
the theory OH which the publishers
elected to include history of the
Holy Land beginning 30 centuries bp
fore tile Christian era and running
down to the present day. though one
must admire that rare literary skill
which condensed this history. includ-
ing chronological tables beginning
for the Jewish phase. with King Ter
oboam. for the Christian period with
the Emperor Constantine. and for
the Mohammedaa period with the
Khalifatc of Omar into four pages of
12-point type. On the other hand.
description of .,'the Zionist Commas
sion and its work. covering Il period
of less than three years. occupies
eight pages, which is rather generous
space considering that the publishers
are neither Zionists nor Jews.