Two Ledgers and a Legal Codex – A Jewish Policeman in Palestine during the British Mandate and the Establishment of ...

Two Ledgers and a Legal Codex – A Jewish Policeman in Palestine during the British Mandate and the Establishment of the State – 1947-1953
Two handwritten ledgers and a printed legal codex which had belonged to the Jewish policeman Shmuel Yankovitch. Haifa, Beit Lechem and elsewhere, 1947-1953
1. "A Ledger of the Tasks of the Police" – a handwritten notebook (presumably written by Yankovitch during his training) with interesting information about the Palestine police during the British Mandate: the ranks and badges, instructions for using weapons, arrests, searches and more. Dated on the first leaf: 8.10.1947, Beit Lechem.
Approx. 100 written pages, approx. 20 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. The front binding and first leaves are partially detached. Spine missing, with cloth strips mounted along it. Several handwritten notes are inserted among the leaves.
2. A policeman-ledger with hundreds of handwritten entries (numbered and dated), documenting Yankovitch's work during the years 1948-1953 (most of them from the 1950s): complaints, unusual events, stakeouts, special operations, notes handwritten by senior officers and more.
Approx. 13.5cm. Good-fair condition. Stains and creases. Binding missing.
3. "The Criminal Law… as it came into force on December 1, 1948", a legal codex. Tel-Aviv: S. Borski, 1948. A copy that served Yankovitch in his work, with handwritten comments, notes and leaves stapled and inserted between the leaves. On the first leaf there is a handwritten Hebrew inscription: "Shmuel Yankovitch… the district of Haifa".
110 pp, approx. 23.5 cm. Fair-poor condition. Stains, creases and blemishes. The gatherings are detached one from the other. Restored tears at the inside margin of the title page. Binding detached, worn and damaged, missing spine.
Enclosed: two additional ledgers (small, only the first leaves are filled in).