Book of Documents submitted to the General Assembly of the United Nations relating to the establishment of the National Hom for the Jewish People.
A Seminal Document Related To The Founding
Of Israel
[Judaica]. The Jewish Agency for Palestine. Book of Documents submitted to the General Assembly of the United Nations, Relating to the Establishment of the National Home for the Jewish People… (The Jewish Agency for Palestine): New York, May 1947.
4to.; internally fresh and clean; cardboard wrappers; some faint offsetting to covers; spine sunned.
First (and only?) edition of this remarkable and thorough compilation of documents submitted to the United Nations by various agencies and world leaders to further the argument for a centralized, tangible home for the disparate Jewish people. Significant for many reasons: time of publication (just after WW II); contents (includes virtually every major speech or policy statement submitted to the U.N. by a host of international world leaders); and, last but not least, its role in the creation of the Israeli state (just after this document was published and these arguments forwarded).
Includes 42 different documents, amongst them: the Balfour declaration (and an analysis of it); Various Joint Resolutions of the U.S. Congress on the subject, from 1922 onward; a compilation of various Arab-Jewish Agreements Relative to Palestine; League of Nations Mandate for Palestine; the Churchill White Paper and other remarks by Sir Winston on the subject; similar remarks by Chamberfield, MacDonald, Attlee, and other British leaders; Jewish Agency Statement on Palestine White Papers of 1939; Statement of Mr. Justice Louis D. Brandeis following the Issuance of the White Paper of 1939; Representations Made to the Permanent Mandates Commission of the League of Nations By The Jewish Agency for Palestine on the White Paper of 1939; a statement by Chaim Weizmann, then President of the Jewish Agency for Palestine; A Petition to the President of the United States from the Governors of the Forty-Eight States of the United States, July 2, 1945; The Morrison Plan; Statement of the President of the United States, October 4, 1946; Resolutions of the 22nd World Zionist Conference, Basile, Switzerland, December 1946; and many other fascinating documents.
Foreign Office, November 2nd, 1917
Dear Lord Rothschild,
I have much pleasure in conveying to you, on behalf of His Majesty’s Government, the following declaration of sympathy with Jewish Zionist Aspirations…
“His Majesty’s Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object. It being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country”
I should be grateful if you would bring this declaration to the knowledge of the Zionist Federation. (From: The Balfour Declaration, [a])
The modern state of Israel developed from the Zionist campaign for a Jewish state in Palestine and the Balfour Declaration (1917) in which the Jewish demand for a national home was supported by Britain. Under the British mandate (from 1922) in Palestine, the Jewish community increased from about 10% of the population to approximately 30% in 1936. In 1937 the Peel Commission recommended the partition of Palestine and the formation of Jewish and Arab states. Subsequently, Britain abandoned the partition solution, but, after its referral of the Palestine problem to the United Nations in 1947, a U.N. Special Commission recommended partition and a resolution to that effect passed the General Assembly. The British mandate ended on May 14 1948 and the independent Jewish state of Israel in Palestine was established.
A fine first edition of a founding work central to the creation of the modern state of Israel.
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