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F. Leader Arrives from Palestine; J.N.F. Initiates “book of the Jewish State”

December 12, 1947
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Elias M. Epstein, head of the overseas department the Jewish National Fund headquarters in Jerusalem, arrived here from Palestine, ### Epstein will attend the national conference of the Jewish National Fund scheduled ##be held in Chicago next month.

A “Book of the Jewish State” dedicated to the decision of the United Nations, ### been opened at the headquarters of the J.N.F. in Jerusalem to perpetuate the storic event, according to a cable received today from Dr. Abraham Granovsky, head the Jewish National Fund. Inscriptions commemorating the event may be entered the basis of contributions of $100 to the Fund for the acquisition of land in Palestine.

In his cable, addressed to Judge Morris Rothenberg, president of the J.N.F. by America, Dr. Granovsky invited American Jews to express their gratitude for America’s decisive part in the hiscoric decision by inscribing the names of President ##ry S. Truman, Secretary of State George C. Marshall, of members of the U.S. ##egation to the United Nations, as well as the names of Zionist leaders who ##resented the Jewish Agency before the United Nations, and of the Jewish and non-Jewish leaders of public opinion who championed the cause of Jewish independence Palestine.

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