Autograph Letter Signed in French on letterhead. A Letter of introduction on behalf of Nachum Sokolow

ROTHSCHILD, BARON EDMOND DE

Paris

18th April, 1917

Banker and art connoiseur, the soignee Baron Edmond de Rothschild (1845-1934) devoted extraordinary energies to the causes of the Jewish people. Aloof from the work of political Zionism, Rothschild preferred to engage his own method of colonizing the Land of Israel by establishing agricultural settlements, especially in the Northern Galillee. Only toward the end of World War I, did Rothschild draw closer to the cause of mainstream political Zionism. See EJ, Vol. XIV, cols. 342-5. In this letter, addressed simply “Excellence,” Baron Rothschild introduces Monsieur Sokolow who has "recently engaged in...very interesting discussions with the English and French authorities...and is a celebrated man of letters." Rothschild takes the liberty of requesting that the addressee share with Sokolow the benefit of his wise counsel