The Dispatch · 17 July 1911

CP-1911-008

Zionists To Purchase Land

Plan of American Society Is to Buy 100,000 Acres in Palestine Annually — To Establish Colonies of Jews in Holy Land — 14th Annual Convention Held in Peoria

Transcribed from the clipping

“To buy 100,000 acres of land annually in Palestine in order to establish colonies of Jews was the principal proposition of a practical nature placed before the fourteenth annual convention of the Federation of American Zionists at its session in Peoria Saturday. This proposition was made by the National Fund Commission, which is the active agency of the Zionist movement for the purpose of regaining the Holy Land for the Jewish people. The National Fund Commission reported through Dr. M. Bodenheimer, of Cologne, Germany, that in addition to the thirty-eight agricultural colonies established in Palestine through the efforts of Zionists, a residential suburb for artisans had been established close to the port of Jaffa.”

Context added by this archive

<i>Colonies</i> in the subheading, and a purchase target in acres per year, decided at a convention in Illinois.

Correction to the caption this arrived with

Slide 9 of the presentation captions this scan as the Buffalo Jewish Review, 19 July 1929. It reports the fourteenth annual convention of the Federation of American Zionists, held in Peoria in 1911, and discusses the Young Turk party in the Ottoman Empire. Filed to the caption on the other scan on that slide.

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"Zionists To Purchase Land," The Dispatch, 17 July 1911. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1911-008. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1911-008