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Lot #
5334
Auction End Date
8/12/2003 12:36:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
Title Information
Title (English)
Postcard with 15 Signatures of Zionist Leaders
Title (Hebrew)
12th World Zionist Congress
Author
[Manuscript - Zionism]
City
Carlsbad
Publication Date
1921
Collection Information
Independent Item
This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
Description Information
Physical
Description
90:140 mm., light browning.
Paragraph 1
Postcard addressed to Hanna Ruppin by her husband Arthur and signed by 14 additional participants in the Congress including Chaim Weitzman, Vladimir (Zev) Jabotinsky, Abraham Menachem Mendel Ussishkin , Berthold Feiwel.
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Description
The first Congress after World War I. It was held in Carlsbad on Sept. 1–14, 1921, after the following crucial events had taken place: the Balfour Declaration, the British conquest of Palestine, the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, mass pogroms against Ukrainian Jews, and the London Zionist Conference (1920), at which the Keren Hayesod was founded. During this period the Zionist movement in America had begun to come to the fore, and the Brandeis group had clashed with Weizmann's leadership at the London Conference. The Zionist leadership had also been transformed. The "Berlin period" had come to an end with the defeat of Germany in World War I, and the group that had obtained the Balfour Declaration, led by Weizmann and Sokolow, had transferred the Zionist world center to England. At the London Conference, Weizmann was elected president of the Zionist Organization and Sokolow president of the Executive. In addition, the first years after the Balfour Declaration had been marked by anti-Jewish riots in Jerusalem (1920) and Jaffa (1921). Weizmann delivered a report on the political activities of the Zionist Organization during the war and called on the Jewish people to assist in building Erez Israel. Ruppin brought the acquisition of large tracts of land in the Jezreel Valley before the Congress for approval and was opposed by the directorate of the JNF, led by Nehemiah de Lieme. Bialik, among others, came out in defense of the Jewish workers in Palestine who were the subject of attacks by the "efficiency"-minded group, opposing Weizmann's leadership. For the first time in the history of Zionism, a representative of the workers in Erez Israel, Josef Sprinzak, was elected to the Executive, which thereafter was situated in London and Jerusalem.
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Period
20th Century:
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Subject
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Zionism
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Manuscript Type
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