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Report of the Royal Commission on Alien Immigration

Auction 35 · Lot 43

Report of the Royal Commission on Alien Immigration

Estimate
$1,000–$1,500
Hammer price
$1,000

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

(ANGLO JUDAICA).

printer

Wyman & Sons

Place

London

Publication

1903

Description

Vols. I-IV bound here in one

summary

Contains extensive testimony of Dr. Theodor Herzl before the Commission. Quite predictably, while inveighing against the suggested restriction of Jewish immigration from Eastern Europe, Herzl states flatly that the ultimate solution to the sufferings of the Jewish People can only be in Palestine. Herzl perspicaciously observes that the history of the Jews in Exile is a vicious cycle: Jews flee to a country free of anti-Semitism, and invariably, the increase in their numbers in the new land engenders there the very anti-Semitism they fled from. Sitting on the Commission, among others, was Lord Rothschild (Vol. II, pp. 211-221). The Report provides much detailed information regarding living conditions in the East End of London
Vol. I: pp. 8, 52; Vol. II: pp. 8, 865, (1); Vol. III: pp. 8, 98; Vol. IV: pp.142. Crisp, clean copy. Contemporary half-calf, corners bumped, spine starting. Folio
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