Paula Arnold was born in Vienna, the daughter of Leon Kellner, one of Theodore Herzl’s early aides. She taught in Vienna at high schools for girls until 1933 when she emigrated to Palestine, settled in Binyamina, and turned to writing. Among her works are Austria of the Austrians (1914) and translations of novels and plays by other authors into German. In 1960, for the centenary of the birth of Theodor Herzl, she prepared an English translation of his Altneuland (Old-New Land), which was published in Israel that same year. She also wrote Birds of Israel (1962) and Israel Nature Notes (1965) a selection of articles written for the Jerusalem Post.