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Jewish migration
The Keren Kayemet L'Israel is an organisation formed in the beginning
of the 19th century to raise money from world Jewry to purchase and
redeem land in Israel (then called Palestine). They also dealt with
starting settlements in barren tracts of lands in Palestine.
Theodor Herzl (1860–1904), an Austro-Hungarian Jew, founded the Zionist movement. In 1896, he published Der Judenstaat (The Jewish State), in which he called for the establishment of a national Jewish state.
The establishment of Zionism led to the Second Aliyah (1904–1914) with the influx of around forty thousand Jews. In 1917, the British Foreign Secretary Arthur J. Balfour issued the Balfour Declaration that "view[ed] with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people." In 1920, Palestine became a League of Nations mandate administered by Britain.
Jewish immigration resumed in third (1919–1923) and fourth (1924–1929) waves after World War I.
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This fundraising poster was printed in
Warsaw in the early 20th century.
Warsaw in the early 20th century.
Polonica stamps:
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Israel 1994, 23 VIII |
