“Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.”


–  John Dewey

Below are corrections to errata, identified in The File after publication of the first edition.

  • Material sourced from the Weizmann Archives should have been credited in Postscript and Acknowledgements section as Courtesy of Yad Chaim Weizmann, The Weizmann Archives, Rehovot, Israel.
  • Seven documents from the Weizmann Archives were missing their document numbers and should have been cited on the following pages in the endnotes as follows:
    • Page 294, Endnote 20: Essay, the History of the Maccabi Organisation [Sie] – in the Beginning. November 1944. 9-2528, The Weizmann Archives. Rehovot, Israel.
    • Page 311, Endnote 44: Shalit, Lionel. 24 April 1931. Correspondence, Intention to lnvite Arab Sports Clubs to the Maccabia in Palestine in May 1932, to Chaim Weizmann. 23-1501, The Weizmann Archives. Rehovot, Israel.
    • Page 311, Endnote 45: Lionel Shalit, “Correspondence, on Letterhead of Bar-Cochba Association, to Weizmann,” 10-1503, The Weizmann Archives. Rehovot, Israel.
    • Page 314, Endnote 18: “Correspondence, Wauchope’s Consent to Be Patron of the 1932 Maccabiad, to Weizmann,”, 19-1558, The Weizmann Archives. Rehovot, Israel.
    • Page 315, Endnote 45: The Executive of the Zionist Organisation Organisation Department, org aut. 31 March 1932. Report, of the Organisation [Sic] Department of the [Zionist] Executive for the Period August 1931 to February 1932, Noting the Maccabiad and the Great Financial Strain Facing the Executive. 21-1563, The Weizmann Archives. Rehovot, Israel.
    • Page 333, Endnote 26: Mond, Henry Ludwig. 29 May 1933. Correspondence, Palestine’s Participation in the British Empire Games, Participation of the Arabs, and the Tremendous lnfluence of the Maccabi on the Sporting Element of the Country That They Will Likely Predominate on the Selection Committee and More or Less Run lt, to Chaim Weizmann. 5-1640A, The Weizmann Archives. Rehovot, Israel.
    • Lionel Shalit, “Correspondence, Conditional Promise to Attend the Reception Given by the Jewish Agency in Honor of the Palestine Motor Cyclists, to Chaim Weizmann,” 10-1503, The Weizmann Archives. Rehovot, Israel.
  • P. 353, Endnote 74 should read: Khaled Nashef, “Tawfik Canaan: His Life and Works,” Jerusalem Quarterly File, no. 16 (2002): 20–21. https://www.palestine-studies.org/sites/default/files/jq-articles/16_canaan_2.pdf.