Paula Arnold

Paula Kellner (later Arnold) was born in 1885 in Vienna, Austria, which was then the capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Her father, Professor Leon Kellner, taught English literature at the University of Vienna and was one of the first to become a Zionist and member of Theodor Herzl's closest circle. At the age of 12, Paula met Herzl for the first time. At 13, she traveled with her parents for a year to England.[1]

When she grew up, she pursued teaching, but after her marriage in 1910 to Marcus (Max) Arnold, she decided to pursue journalism, writing in newspapers and various magazines. She also wrote the episode that dealt with Austria in "countries and peoples," issued by Pittman in London.

In 1926 she began teaching at a school in Vienna. A year later she began writing for the Baltimore Sun and, in 1931, the Manchester Guardian. About this time, she began to lose her hearing so she decided to abandon her dream of teaching English in Israel. Instead, she learned pottery in the workshop of a Russian potter, Iskra.

In November 1933, she immigrated to Eretz Israel (Land of Israel) with Max Arnold.[1] The two settled in Binyamina and set up a pottery workshop there. After Max's death in 1942, Paula Arnold began writing for the Palestine Post, for which she wrote a regular column of book reviews and "nature lists," which were later collected in her book Israel Nature Notes. In addition, she published in various newspapers in Hebrew, English and German. In 1960, for the occasion of the centenary of Herzl's birth, she translated and published, Herzl's utopian book, Altneuland. In 1962, her guide Birds of Israel was published with illustrations by Walter Ferguson. Arnold wrote an autobiography that was published entitled Memories in Love.[1]

Arnold's younger sister, Dora, was married for several years to the philosopher Walter Benjamin.

• Arnold, Paula; Ferguson, Walter (1962). Birds of Israel = צפורי הארץ. Shalit Publishers. Retrieved 16 September 2018.
• Levy, Brakha; Berlinger, Zeʼev; Silberstein, Zwi; Arnold, Paula (1958). Mt. Carmel flowers: thirty-two wildflowers growing on Mt. Carmel. Municipality of Haifa, Dept. of education. Retrieved 16 September 2018.
• Arnold, Paula (1965). Israel nature notes. Shalit Publishers. Retrieved 16 September 2018.
• Avigad, Berakhah; Berlinger, Zeʼev; Zilbershṭin, Tsevi; Arnold, Paula; Cohen-Waitz, Lea (1963). Trees and shrubs in Israel: twenty seven wild trees and shrubs. Dept. of Education. Retrieved 16 September 2018.
• Kellner, Leon; Arnold, Paula; Delisle, Arthur L (1914). Austria of the Austrians and Hungary of the Hungarians,. C. Scribner's Sons. Retrieved 16 September 2018.

• Women of Israel
• Wildlife of Israel

• Arnold, Dan (18 June 2016). "From Vienna to Binyamina". Here and There in the Land of Israel (Podcast) (in Hebrew). No. 20. Interviewed by Yiftach Mazor. Archived from the original on 29 June 2017. Retrieved 24 April 2019.*