(ISRAEL, LAND OF).

AUCTION 69 | Thursday, June 23rd, 2016 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Holy Land Maps and Ceremonial Objects

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Lot 119

(ISRAEL, LAND OF).

Extensive album of hundreds of newspaper clippings, representing a broad survey of the (mostly) British press concerning the wresting of the Holy Land from the Turks by the British, and its significance for the future of Zionism. Evidently from the perspective of an ardent Christian Zionist. ff. (8); pp. 150, (4). Modern boards. Folio.

England (et al): 1917-18

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

Fascinating scrapbook takes us through the first year of British rule of Palestine: From the entry of General Allenby into Jerusalem on December 11th, 1917, to the laying of the foundation-stone of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem on July 24th, 1918. Rather than viewing the British conquest of the Holy Land purely as a political event, the cutting here - whether Christian, Jewish or secular - well grasped the historical and religious implications of the termination of four centuries of Ottoman domination of the Holy Land (1517-1917). Not restricted to just the British press, the clippings here extend as far as the English-language Shanghai Times (see p. 132).