The New York Times · New York, New York · 11 January 1932
CP-1932-018
ZIONISTS MARK JUBILEE.
Take In $20,000 at Dinner for Purchase of Land in Palestine.
Transcribed from the clipping
The fiftieth anniversary of the beginning of the Jewish colonization work in Palestine and the thirtieth anniversary of the establishment of the Jewish National Fund were jointly observed last night with dinner at the Hotel Edison, at which Nahum Sokolow, president of the World Zionist Organization, was the guest of honor.
About 800 persons, including Zionists and non-Zionists, paid $25 a plate, a total of $20,000, which will pay for 800 dunams of land in Palestine (about 200 acres). Deputy Police Commissioner Nelson Rottenberg, president of the fund, who presided, announced that $16,000,000 has been contributed so far in small sums to the fund, the purpose of which is to buy land in Palestine.
Mr. Sokolow, who spoke in Jewish, reviewed the early history and Zionism and appealed to American Jewry to contribute toward the Jewish National Fund.
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"ZIONISTS MARK JUBILEE.," The New York Times, 11 January 1932. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1932-018. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1932-018
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