Austria

1927 — 1st Edition. Original Cloth. 8vo. 318 pages. 23 cm. In German. 'From the pre-history of Zionism: the Jewish State project in the years 1695-1845'. Published under the auspices of the Executive of the World Zionist Organization (Exekutive der Zionistischen Weltorganisation) . A history of the texts and diplomatic projects and proposals relating to the foundations of the idea of the Jewish State, from Holger Paulli to Mendellsohn, Napoleon to Mordecai Noah, the Decembrists to the Crimea Project of 1841. Attractively bound and printed. The author, Nathan Michael Gelber (1891–1966) , was an Austrian historian and Zionist leader, the "first secretary of the Austrian Zionist Organization (1921–30) . In 1934 he immigrated to Palestine where, until his retirement in 1954, he worked in the Keren Hayesod head office in Jerusalem. " - 2008 EJ. Subjects: Zionism. Zionismus. Judentum. Zionismus. Inscribed by the author in Hebrew on the front-end page. There is a second inscription in German adjacent to the title page. Light wear to cloth, otherwise clean. Very good condition. (ZION-7-33A)