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Palestine—Jewish National Home | The Establishment...of the Jewish National Home, with related letters, 1926

UK: Greenford Park Warehouse

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May 24, 02:02 PM GMT

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500 - 700 GBP

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Palestine--Jewish National Home

The Establishment in Palestine of the Jewish National Home. London: Zionist Organisation, June 1926


[with:]


A letter from the Zionist Organisation to the High Commissioner for Palestine, May 1st 1926


[and]


A French translation of the above letter


Folio (27.4 x 20.6mm.), 39pp, cover inscribed by 'Hyman, Tel Aviv', grey stapled wrappers, frayed at edges, small patch of soiling to lower cover


[with:]


both letters folio (28 x 20.9mm.), 4pp each, frayed at edges


These documents demonstrate in both prose and statistical terms the state of the Jewish population in 1926, following a recent wave of migration into Palestine. They discuss the practical terms for the creation of a Jewish Home in Palestine, and entreat the High Commissioner to support this motion.

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