Resolution Adopted by the Central Conference of American Rabbis...Anent the Balfour Declaration
AUCTION 63 |
Thursday, November 13th,
2014 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Graphic and Ceremonial Art
Lot 235
(ZIONISM).
Resolution Adopted by the Central Conference of American Rabbis...Anent the Balfour Declaration
Chicago: July 4th 1918
Est: $500 - $700
PRICE REALIZED $500
The American Reform Movement’s resolution against the establishment of a Jewish Homeland.
Notably issued on July 4th (clearly emphasizing American ties), seven months following Balfour’s Declaration, the CCAR statement reads, in part: “We are opposed to the idea that Palestine should be considered the home-land of the Jews. Jews in America are part of the American nation. The ideal of the Jew is not the establishment of a Jewish state… We believe that our survival as a people is dependent upon the assertion and the maintenance of our historic religious role and not upon the acceptance of Palestine as a home-land of the Jewish people.”