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Dorothy Bar-Adon

Dorothy Bar-Adon was an American-born Israeli journalist who wrote for The Palestine Post from 1933 until her death in 1950.

1907 to 1950Reporting for The Palestine PostWriting on kibbutz and moshav lifeAutobiography Spring Up, O Well

Born: 2 August 1907, Philadelphia
Died: 7 August 1950, Merhavia
Occupation: journalist

Dorothy Bar-Adon was born in 1907 in Philadelphia

Dorothy Bar-Adon was born Dorothy Kahn in Philadelphia on August 2, 1907. Her Jewish family was well off and assimilated, and it later moved to Atlantic City. Her father George, a clothing merchant and the main earner, died in 1924.

After high school she became a staff reporter for The Atlantic City Press. She often wrote on political and social issues and interviewed visitors linked to world events. In 1930 she reported on a local protest against the British White Paper on Palestine.

In 1933 she moved to Mandatory Palestine and arrived in Tel Aviv in June. Since her Hebrew was limited, she wrote for the English-language Palestine Post. In 1936 she published her autobiography, Spring Up, O Well.

She traveled across the country and wrote about kibbutzim, moshavim and Arab communities. From 1936 to 1938 she lived in Kibbutz Givat Brenner. In 1938 the paper sent her to Poland to report on its Jews. She died on August 7, 1950.