This "early Zionist tract, part polemic and part vision" posits that only in a reconstituted autonomous homeland in the Land of Israel could the Jews be safe from Antisemitism and be free to develop their spiritual life. In his scheme, American Jews would purchase land for settlers. There are references to American conditions. The second part contains an anti-Reform polemic. The folded in frontispiece contains an indictment of American Jewry for forsak­ing Zion. In a poem in the frontispiece, Raphael asked, incorpo­rating a quotation from the Yom Kippur Ne'ilah liturgy, why "is every city built on its hilltop while the City of G-d [Jerusalem] is degraded to the nethermost depth"? He furthermore com­plained that "Israel loves his land [only] for the purpose of digging graves." In the accompanying illustration the traditional immigrant (carrying a Torah scroll) is depicted as en route to America (the Brooklyn Bridge and Lower East Side tene­ments await him) and hav­ing turned his back on Zion. The artist was "Schwartz 14 Ann St. N.Y" The addenda/ errata were set in a different type than the main text and are dated later than the imprint date. The imprint place is recorded based on KA. Raphael's manuscript is at the Library of Congress.