GREGORY, J.W. Report on the Work of the Commission Sent Out by the Jewish Territorial Organization under the Auspices of the Portuguese Government to Examine the Territory Proposed for the Purpose of a Jewish Settlement in Angola

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Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts Graphic & Ceremonial Art Including: The Alfonso Cassuto Collection of Iberian Books, Part II

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(ZIONISM).

GREGORY, J.W. Report on the Work of the Commission Sent Out by the Jewish Territorial Organization under the Auspices of the Portuguese Government to Examine the Territory Proposed for the Purpose of a Jewish Settlement in Angola

FIRST EDITION. Folding map and several photographic illustrations of scenes from Angola and survey map in black and red. Inscribed on front cover: “With I. Zangwill’s Compliments.” From the Cassuto Collection pp.13, (1 blank), 50. Original printed wrappers. Folio

London: Bradbury, Agnew, & Co. 1913

Est: $500 - $700

“The object of the ITO [Jewish Territorial Organization] is to procure a territory...for those Jews who cannot or will not remain in the lands in which they at present live” (title-page). The Jewish Territorial Organization was the brainchild of the Anglo-Jewish novelist Israel Zangwill, who, although initially an ardent Zionist, grew impatient with the Zionist movement when it rejected the Uganda offer in 1905. See EJ, Vol. XVI, cols. 930-3; JE, Vol. XII, p. 634