(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
A history of pre-Zionist Judenstaat plans from 1695 to 1845 compiled by Dr. Gelber, has just been published by the Phaldon Publishing House on behalf of the Executive of the World Zionist Organization. The work will consist of three volumes, the second to be published during the present year dealing with the period 1845 to 1870.
The present volume begins with the efforts of the Dane, Oliger Paulli, who between 1695 and 1714 tried to interest the rulers of Europe in a movement for the return of the Jews to Palestine. It proceeds to trace the Judenstaat ideas of Moses Mendelsohn’s time, the negotiations conducted by the Jews of Leghorn in 1783 with a Turkish Pasha for the purchase of Palestine in order to re-establish there the Jewish state, the Judenstaat plans of Prince de Ligue and of Napoleon.
It also deals with the Judenstaat propaganda carried on by the English clergyman Lewis Way in 1818, the plans of the Frankfurt Jew. Bernard Behrend, for a Jewish state in South America, the scheme of the Silesian Siegfried Seyfart, who between 1832 and 1839 submitted to the Austrian and Prussian Chancellories memoranda on the necessity of re-establishing a Jewish state, and the various schemes put forward between 1840 and 1845 by a number of British politicians for establishing a Jewish State in Palestine in order to solve the Eastern question.
The volume closes with a consideration of a Crimean project put forward in the year 1841.
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