2025-01 Raynors Historical Collectible Auctions
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Beautiful printed booklet, 9-3/4” x 6”, published following the rapid development of the Jewish settlement in Eretz Israel after the Balfour Declaration of 1917, published by the Central Bureau of Keren Hayesod. London, 1924. The booklet prents 32 full page photographs of settlements, cities and landscapes in Eretz Israel, including: A shepherd on the shores of the Kinneret, the Oak of Abraham in Hebron, the "Hadassah" Hospital in Jerusalem, views of the Technion in Haifa, the Borkhov neighborhood in Tel Aviv, agriculture in the Hebrew settlements, Degania, Ness Ziona, Rehovot in its early days, the Yemenite neighborhood next to Rehovot, Montefiore Street in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives and more. The booklet opens with these words “The great longing to return to the land of their ancestors, which has possessed the Jewish people through all the many centuries of their dispersion, received political recognition in the declaration made by the British Govern- ment on the second of November, 1917. In this document Lord Balfour declared that the British Government viewed with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people and would use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object. This declaration was confirmed inter- nationally by the Mandate of the League of Nations of June, 1922.” The publishers, Keren Hayesod, Keren Hayesod was established at the World Zionist Congress in London on July 7–24, 1920 to provide the Zionist movement with resources needed to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine. It came in response to the Balfour Declaration of 1917.
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