Paula Arnold

Paula Arnold was born in 1885 in Vienna

Paula Kellner was born in Vienna in 1885. Her father, Leon Kellner, taught English literature at the University of Vienna and belonged to Theodor Herzl's close circle. She met Herzl at 12 and spent a year in England with her parents at 13.

She worked as a teacher, then turned to journalism after marrying Max Arnold in 1910. In 1926 she began teaching at a school in Vienna, and later wrote for the Baltimore Sun and the Manchester Guardian. As she began to lose her hearing, she gave up her plan to teach English in the Land of Israel and studied pottery.

In 1933 she and her husband moved to the Land of Israel, settled in Binyamina and opened a pottery workshop. After Max died in 1942, she wrote book reviews and nature columns for the Palestine Post, later collected in Israel Nature Notes. She also wrote in Hebrew, English and German papers.

In 1960 she published an English translation of Herzl's Altneuland, and in 1962 her guide Birds of Israel appeared. She also wrote an autobiography, Memories in Love. She died in 1968 and was buried beside her husband in Binyamina.