(ZIONISM).

AUCTION 24 | Tuesday, June 29th, 2004 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Ceremonial Art and Holy Land Maps Including Ceremonial Art from the Collection of Daniel M. Friedenberg

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Lot 222

(ZIONISM).

Report of the Anglo-American Committee of Enquiry Regarding the Problems of European Jewry and Palestine. Lausanne, 20th April, 1946. On title, seal of British crown. pp. (4), 80. original wrappers. (London: His Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1946). * Maps Relating to the Report of the Anglo-American Committee of Enquiry Regarding the Problems of European Jewry and Palestine. Five foldout colored maps of Palestine: 1) Relief; 2) Rainfall; 3) Population; 4 )Land in Jewish Possession; 5) Land Classification. Folio (London: His Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1946)

London: H.M. Stationery Office 1946

Est: $600 - $900

PRICE REALIZED $800

Detailed information, country by country, concerning the European survivors of the Holocaust, as well as the prevailing conditions in Palestine, to which, it is estimated “as many as 500,000 (Jews) may wish to, or be impelled to, emigrate from Europe” (p. 15). Nonetheless, the Committee would deny the “right to return” claimed by Jews (p. 7)