'קללי נפשי את חברון': סיקור מאורעות תרפ"ט והנצחתם כראי לביקורת על 'היישוב הישן'

The violent events that occurred in Palestine in1929 were an unprecedented shock for the Yishuv.Contemporary Yishuv newspapers indicate a focus not on the tragedy itself but rather on distinguishing between two groups: the New Yishuv and the Old Yishuv. The main victims of the riots, members of the Old Yishuv, sustained accusations, curses,and criticism for not having defended themselves.The newspapers of the New Yishuv sharpened the distinctions between these groups and framed the story not as a tragedy of the Yishuv but rather as one group’s failure versus another’s success – the slaughtered versus the heroes. The Old Yishuv’s weakness was highlighted to associate the tragedy and the threat that it posed with one group as opposed to with the entire Yishuv. By examining the impact of a number of commemoration activities on the memory of the victims, this article clarifies whether in historical memory the framing of the riots as pertaining to a certain group was successful.Exploring this topic also teaches us about the intensity of the hostility toward the Old Yishuv at the end of the 1920s.