(Anglo-Jewish writer and one of the founders of the British Zionist movement, 1864-1926).

ZANGWILL, ISRAEL.

20th July

East Preston, Sussex

1921

Typed Letter Signed, written in English, to Dr. M. Soloweitschik and (Shimshon) Rosenbaum, Ministers in the Lithuanian Cabinet, concerning the fate of the Mandelstamm Family, requesting that they be provided safety in Lithuania. “May I take the opportunity of congratulating you and Lithuania upon the new and happy turn given to Jewish history by the political recognition of our people.”

Concerns the family of the writer and Maskil, Leon Mandelstamm (1819-89). The period 1919-22 was a golden age for Jewish national autonomy in Lithuania.