In the Shadow of Zion: Promised Lands Before Israel

Staging a New Community: Immigrant Yiddish Culture and Diaspora Nationalism in Interwar Paris, 1919-1940

Tevye's Ottoman Daughter: The Making of Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jews in the Shatterzones of Empire, 1882-1923

This article explores the relationship between the Jewish Territorialist movement and the State of Israel during the first decade of the Jewish State’s existence. Territorialism was never e...

“A highway to battlegrounds”: Jewish territorialism and the State of Israel, 1945–1960

During the 1930s, the Freeland League for Jewish Territorial Colonisation was searching for a ‘new’ home for the persecuted Jews of Europe. The League’s secretary, Dr Isaac Steinberg, favoured Aust...

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Utopian colonial settlers: Dreaming of Jewish colonies in Northern and Western Australia

This article traces the attempts in 1907–1913 by the Jewish Territorial Organization to set up an autonomous Jewish entity in West Africa. The Territorialists laid down three criteria for the choice of a territory: (1) A tract of land that must be large enough in size to allow for the absorption of mass Jewish migration. (2) A fertile territory that could provide a livelihood for the Jews who went there. (3) A sparsely populated territory so that no ethnic tensions would be created between the Jews settling there and the local residents. One likely territory was Angola, which at the beginning of the twentieth century was under the protection of the Portuguese government. The plan failed. However, the importance of the “Angola Plan” was to highlight the position of the Territorialists towards Africa in general and Angola in particular.

In the Shadow of Zion: Promised Lands Before Israel

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Staging a New Community: Immigrant Yiddish Culture and Diaspora Nationalism in Interwar Paris, 1919-1940

Tevye's Ottoman Daughter: The Making of Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jews in the Shatterzones of Empire, 1882-1923

“A highway to battlegrounds”: Jewish territorialism and the State of Israel, 1945–1960

Utopian colonial settlers: Dreaming of Jewish colonies in Northern and Western Australia

ANGOLAN ZION: The Jewish Territorial Organization and the idea of a Jewish state in Western Africa, 1907–1913

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