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Bidding Information
Lot #    19710
Auction End Date    1/8/2008 12:12:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Social Zionism
Author    [Only Ed.] Bernard Abraham Rosenblatt
City    New York
Publisher    The Public Publishing Co.
Publication Date    1919
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. 151, [1] pp., 228:147 mm., light age staining, wide margins. A very good copy bound in the original cloth boards, rubbed.
          
Paragraph 1    Small sketch of scenes in Erez Israel on each page.
          
Detailed
Description		    Bernard Abraham Rosenblatt, (1886–1969), U.S. lawyer and Zionist. Rosenblatt, who was born in Gorodok, Galicia, was taken to the U.S. in 1892. Rosenblatt, as a Columbia University student, established in 1905 the first Zionist student organization, the Columbia University Zionist Organization and was a founder of the Collegiate Zionist League at the end of 1906. From 1911 he served as the secretary of the American Zionist Federation. In 1916 he was an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for Congress and in 1921 he was appointed a New York City magistrate. As founder and first president of the American Zion Commonwealth (1915), a land development firm dedicated to facilitating Jewish settlement in Palestine, he supervised the land acquisition for, and subsequent establishment of, the towns of Herzliyyah, Afulah, Balfouria, and settlement in the Haifa Bay region. In his capacity as the first U.S. delegate to be appointed to the World Zionist Executive (1921), he was responsible for floating the first issue of Palestinian bonds in the U.S., setting the pattern for subsequent Israel bonds sales.

He was chairman of the board of Tiberius Hot Springs, Ltd. (1935–40), president of both the Jewish National Fund (1923–37) and the Keren Hayesod of America (1941–46), and vice–president of the Zionist Organization of America (1927–48). Rosenblatt wrote: Two Generations of Zionism (1967), his autobiography; Social Zionism (1919); Federated Palestine and the Jewish Commonwealth (1941); and The American Bridge to the Israel Commonwealth (1959).

          
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
America-South America:    Checked
Israel:    Checked
  
Subject
Other:    Zionism
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    English
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica
Drawings:    Checked