Map produced for American Zionists in 1917, 'Eretz Israel'
From Dan Wyman Books in Brooklyn, which specializes in Judaica, a 1917 map from the Federation of American Zionists. Map is $135.
We are pleased to present to you this rare original WW I-era ... Hebrew map of Erez Israel created for the Federation of American Zionists by Israel Belkind in the year of the Balfour Declaration, 1917...
Belkind was born in Logoisk [Russia]. In 1882, while studying at Kharkov University, he was among the students who founded the Bilu movement and went to Erez Israel at the head of its first group... In 1903 he founded an agricultural training school at Shefeyah (near Zikhron Ya'akov) for orphans of the Kishinev pogroms whom he brought to Erez Israel.
...During World War I Belkind was in the U.S., where he published his memoirs in Yiddish, Di Ershte Shrit fun Yishuv Erets Yisroel ("The First Steps of the Jewish Settlement of Palestine," 1918), and created this map. Apart from numerous articles and popular pamphlets, Belkind published a geography of Palestine, Erez Yisrael ba-Zeman ha-Zeh ("The Land of Israel Today," 1928).
Does it show the villages which were disappeared (after their people were disappeared) in 1948?
This one does: link to norwichpsc.org.uk
One should look up ERETZ ISRAEL and check the maps……
Israel has no intentions of peace. Quite the contrary, they want to control all the oil reserves in the Middle East…..
I’ve struggled all weekend to wrap my mind around the first chapter of Benzion Netanyahu’s The Origins of the Inquisition in Fifteenth Century Spain.
The title of the first chapter is “The Jewish Question.” Benzion locates the origin of “Jew hatred” that has “affected the history of mankind,” to an event in Egypt in ~525 BCE — shortly after Cyrus liberated Yehud from Nebuchadnezzar and provided them the first of 200 years’ worth of support to return to Jerusalem, that “zion” for which all Jews so ardently long.
(All Jews except the majority of Jews who remained in Babylon/Persia, that is.)
Here’s how Benzion expressed it:
Readers should recall that at this time, Jews had their own land in Jerusalem, underwritten politically and financially by Persia.
Here’s how American stated the situation:
Pabelmont responded (or has commented in other responses):
And in the middle time, in 1919, when the Versailles treaty was being hammered out, with overwhelming Jewish/zionist representation and negotiating power at the table, here’s how Edwin Black summarized the ‘wants’ zionists brought to the table, and succeeded in acquiring:
Black wrote in “The Transfer Agreement:”
When, as Benzion Netanyahu wrote, Jews in Alexandrine Egypt demanded full equality for a minority in Egypt, Jews DID have a homeland in Palestine, underwritten politically and financially by Persia.
Conversely, by 1919, Jews already had significant settlements in Palestine and by the terms of Versailles gained a legal claim to that territory, and Jews, a minority population, were also the dominant force in Weimar Germany.
Thus in both eras, Jews had BOTH their own land, and they demanded “equality with the upper classes” as a minority in the lands of others. In both instances, that “irrepressible desire for equality surpassing any similar claim put up by any other minority” devolved into the growth of political anti-Semitism among various organizations and political parties.
American gets it:
My kids Got It by the time they could talk: “I do,” they would say to me; their 3-year old I demanded sovereignty over their own space and fate.
Netanyahu didn’t get it. He consistently correlated the emergence of “Jew hatred/antisemitism” with the rise in Jewish economic prosperity, ascribing the “hatred” to mere economic envy. My kids didn’t demand money or material boons, they demanded sovereignty over their own lives. So did Greeks and Egyptians 2300 years ago, and Germans in the mid-20th century. So do Palestinians — and Americans — today. We all know how to make our own way materially, thank you very much.
imo, statements like this one:
suggest that Phil doesn’t Get It either.
Time sure flies, but I vividly remember the events of that year as though it was yesterday. I was a sandal salesman at the time, but as a Jew, the events of that year left me with deep emotional scars for millennia to come. Never forget.
In 525 B.C., Alexandria did not yet exist, and, while there were some Greeks in Egypt, they were not there in anything like the numbers they achieved after Alexander’s conquests. I wonder how many Jews (perhaps better called Hebrews at that point) were then in Egypt.
Netanyahu attached the 525 BC date to the situation in which Jewish (he calls them Jewish) mercenaries guarded Egypt at Jeb (Elephantine).
After Persia liberated Jews ~536, Persia initiated campaigns of conquest, including incursions into Egypt. Netanyahu argues that “it stands to reason” that the Jewish mercenaries at Jeb would not defend Egypt but would support Persia (Esther & killing of 75,000 Persians notwithstanding). This switch of allegiances would naturally, Benzion asserts, result in enraging Egyptians, producing “seething hatred” of Jews.
The 525 date is the earliest date he states. He tracks the development of Egyptian/Greek “Jew hatred” forward, step by step, first Alexander’s conquest which involved Greeks merging into Egypt where Jews had gained political and economic posts which “enraged” both Egyptians and Greeks, etc etc etc.
His arguments are loaded with “may haves” and “perhaps-s” and “stands to reason-s” and plain old speculations based on projections. On the basis of that holey gauze, he sets up the “elements and pattern” of “Jew hatred” that has “affected mankind throughout history.”
it makes your head explode.
In a video conversation about the 2006 assault on Lebanon, Norman Finkelstein says “Jews never forgive, Jews never forget; I admire that.” That statement greatly diminished my respect for Finkelstein.
In 525 B.C., Alexandria did not yet exist, and, while there were some Greeks in Egypt, they were not there in anything like the numbers they achieved after Alexander’s conquests.
what’s a bit of history, lysias, compared to benzion’s intuition.
interesting, in louis malle’s ‘au revoir les enfants’, the jewish child being sheltered in a carmelite school in France during the 2nd WW refuses to study greek. now i know why.
His arguments are loaded with “may haves” and “perhaps-s” and “stands to reason-s” and plain old speculations based on projections.
so, allenbee, this is history as practiced by freud as well, in ‘moses and monotheism’.
The Map is dated as 1917… Back to the Future,
good movie, but it was Fictional.
Meaning that a 1917 Map
does not reference 1948 territory as asked by a comment.
Samuel T
Does it show the villages which were disappeared ( .. ) in 1948?
No suggestion there about the map referencing 1948 territory.
something I read recently pointed out that the Balfour Declaration, signed 2 November 1917. On 5 Nov 1917 Lenin declared the Russian coup d’etat a success, and by 26 Nov 1917 the new Soviet government initiated steps to end WWI.
most likely just a coincidence.
Looking at the map now what befell the people who lived there in 1917 was worse than the plague. It was worse than anyone’s worst nightmare. And poor old Judaism has been hollowed out by Zionism.
BTW didn’t the Jews always live in Israel? why did they need maps of Jewish land? didn’t they know the borders of Jewish land ?
The Jews who always lived in Palestine were Misrachi Jews, brown Jews, if you will. Of course they didn’t need a map of the land they had lived in for 4000 years. It was the Jews who ran off to make a living among the Nations who needed inspiration to keep them donating to the European Jewish colonists in Palestine.
I’d call them Arab Jews. Or just Arabs.
Of course they didn’t need a map of the land they had lived in for 4000 years.
They certainly weren’t living in Transjordania for 4,000 years or in the southern Negev. According to this map, Ben Gurion is buried in territory well outside of Eretz Israel.
seafoid,
The Jews came from the Tribe of JUDAH and Israelis came from the Tribe of ISRAEL. Israel ruled the North and Judah reigned in the South. Borders have always been significant to the 12 Tribes, represented by 12 sons of Jacob (whose name was changed to Israel) Later in History the two Kingdoms came together. Did they know their borders? Yes. Do you remember riding in the back seat with your brother or sister and drawing a line and saying; “Stay over there, this is my side.”?
Well, there is an oversimplification of the need for borders due to conflicts within
a Family. Both Arabs and Israelis waged war for territory with the exception of the nomadic tribes who moved often.
Samuel T
“Well, there is an oversimplification of the need for borders due to conflicts within a Family”
Quite, that’s why there are these artifacts
1) Part II. – Boundaries
2) “…AND ON THE STRENGTH OF THE RESOLUTION OF THE UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY, HEREBY DECLARE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A JEWISH STATE IN ERETZ-ISRAEL, TO BE KNOWN AS THE STATE OF ISRAEL”
“Did they know their borders? “
Yes.
1) Question (a): Over which areas of Palestine do you actually exercise control at present over the entire area of the Jewish State as defined in the Resolution of the General Assembly of the 29th November, 1947?
“In addition, the Provisional Government exercises control over the city of Jaffa; Northwestern Galilee, including Acre, Zib, Base, and the Jewish settlements up to the Lebanese frontier; a strip of territory alongside the road from Hilda to Jerusalem; almost all of new Jerusalem; and of the Jewish quarter within the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem. The above areas, outside the territory of the State of Israel, are under the control of the military authorities of the State of Israel, who are strictly adhering to international regulations in this regard. “
2) “international regulations” at the time Laws and Customs of War on Land (Hague IV); October 18, 1907 Art. 42 SECTION III
“Territory is considered occupied when it is actually placed under the authority of the hostile army. The occupation extends only to the territory where such authority has been established and can be exercised.”
3) Jerusalem Declared Israel- Occupied City- by Israeli Government Proclamation 12 Aug 1948
Palestinian territory has been occupied since 1948, 22nd May.
“The Jews came from the Tribe of JUDAH …”
LOL. Does this include mass conversions to Judaism in it’s proselyting years and Ashkenazi Jews?
Until someone explains coherently how half of the Jewish world ended up in Poland and Russia and when the movement happened I don’t believe that they had any historical link to ancient Israel.
That’s easy!
It happened in AD70!
The Romans gathered up the entire population and dragged them on horse and cart up to Poland and Russia.
Despite there being absolutely zero evidence of this, or in fact any record of the Romans ever collectively displacing entire nations (after all, why displace forced taxpayers?) and the utter implausibility of such a logistical task, that’s what we’ve been told and whilst it’s absurd beyond all reason, I feel the argument is coherent, albeit only slightly more so than the Easter Bunny.
The history of Ashkenazi Jews is reasonably complete. As an ethnic group they formed in Middle Ages in Germany, hence Yidish is a German dialect, and then they were settling in Poland and Bohemia pretty much like Germans, as monarchs and nobility supported growth of cities and immigration of craftsmen and merchants. The percentage of Jews in the population of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was gradual and documented.
There exists also a very small population of Karaim who have a variant of Jewish religion and speak a dialect of Turkic origins, so they fit well what we would expect from descendants of Khazars. Tatars who were in contact with both groups call them “Jews with peyots” and “Jews without peyots”. Some Karaims were probably absorbed by much larger Ashkenazi communities and clearly there was also some absorption of Slavic element.
The “Pale of settlement” in Russia was basically the boundary of former Poland-Lithuania, plus “new lands” of conquered Tatar state of Crimea. Subsequently Ashkenazi Jews migrated also to Russia proper, and in parallel, to Romania and Hungary.
Of course, however pure the origin of Ashkenazi, it does not justify expelling natives from Palestine. Suppose that the Britons managed to increase their numbers in the diasporah and then the Welch/Bretons etc. would expel English from England, except for occupied territories in East Anglia that would be divided into Area A, Area B and Area C.
Peter Beinart will come to the rescue.
AKA, ALL the water[sheds] in the region.
Old map. Ongoing, though ever so slightly constrained (Jordan), process. Explains almost everything about this conflict, its zero-sum and/or covetous bitterness, its lack of a resolution, and a lot of the comments here in support of the above from the resident hasbarachiks.
“AKA, ALL the water[sheds] in the region.”
Of course. What do unhuman Arabs need with water… {/ziomode}
This were the borders for a “Jewish national home” proposed by the Zionists at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919:
link to mideastweb.org
Unfortunately, the quality of the image makes a detailed analysis of the map very difficult. I have a friend who has written extensively on the use of maps to convey political and ideological messages (mostly Italian and German maps, although he’s also done a little work on Israeli maps). Maybe I can get him to dip into his research fund and buy a copy :-)
Just a few points I found interesting (from what I could decipher):
1. The paranthetical note next to the Hebrew date: “5677 (1848 [years] since the Destruction [of the Temple])”.
2. The use of Turkish administrative terms in the legend: “vilayet”, “senjak” and another one I presume is Turkish but couldn’t make out .
3. The designation of other places as either “Arab village” (kefar aravi), “Hebrew colony” (moshavah ivrit) or “German colony” (moshavah germanit).
4. The sea opposite the southern coast (from Haifa southward) is called the “Philistine Sea”.
Even though Germany was a wartime ally of the Ottoman Empire in 1917, I am surprised that there should have been one or more German colonies in Palestine at that point.
I am surprised that there should have been one or more German colonies in Palestine at that point.
The reference is undoubtedly to the Templer colonies (I think there were about 7 or 8 of them), much admired (and envied) by the Zionists.
Thanks. Here’s a Wikipedia article on the Templers (of whom I do not think I had ever heard) and their colonies: Templers. Also, in German, Tempelgesellschaft.
Interesting that the last remaining German Templer colonists were expelled from Israel in 1948-50:
lysias ~ I also knew very little about the Templers.
Interesting precedent set by Israel in 1962 detailed on that wiki entry, to do with the expulsion of about 1000 Templers by mandate authorities in 1939:
The number of Germans deported from Palestine was greater than the number of returning Jews.”[15] In 1962 the State of Israel paid 54 million Deutsche Marks in compensation to property owners whose assets were nationalised”
So what about the 750,000 Palestinians whose property was “nationalised” in 1947/8/9 and the further 2-300,000 in 1967? That’s a whole lot of reparations.