African Zion : the attempt to establish a Jewish colony in the East Africa Protectorate, 1903-1905 / Robert G. Weisbord.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weisbord, Robert G.

Contributor:

Dudden, Adrianne Onderdonk.

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Colonization--Africa, East.

Jews.

Jews--Colonization.

Africa, East.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

viii pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 347 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : map ; 22 cm

Edition:

[First edition].

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : The Jewish Publication Society of America, 5728-1968.

Contents:

Introduction

The early development of the East Africa Protectorate

The birth of political Zionism

The formal offer to the Zionists

Settler reactions to the offer

The colonial official, the missionary and the offer

Motives, objections and the press

Jews in a turmoil-probable abandonment of the scheme

The scheme revived

The Zionist expedition to East Africa

ITO and East Africa

Conclusion.

Notes:

"First Edition."

"Designed by Adrianne Onderdonk Dudden."

Map is of the administrative boundaries of the old East Africa Protectorate 1918.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [323]-335) and index.

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

OCLC:

408712