146 Zionists
The Budapest-born journalist Theodor Herzl (1860-1904) concluded toward the end of the nineteenth century that fighting the rising anti-Semitism was pointless, and that only a state of their own would protect the Jews from persecution. He managed to find enough kindred spirits to convene the first congress of the Zionist Organization in Basle in 1897. One of the programme points adopted was the promotion of Jewish settlements in Palestine.
Date:
1898
Catalog record:
Jud 150/1
Number:
146 Location
Stadtcasino
Steinenberg 14
BaselSwitzerland
