from
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Six Pages of Autographs From the 1929
Zionist Congress
With Some Very Interesting Names on It... |
The Zionist Congress - Collection Co-Signed by:
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Meir Dizengoff
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Carola W. Rothschild
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Janet Lieberman
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Rebecca H. Safer
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Vera R. (Mrs. Chaim) Weizmann
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Archibald (Mrs) Silverman
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Adinor Grodsensky
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Louis Lipsky
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Simon Marks
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Morris D. Wegasch
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Morris Rothenberg
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Arthur Glanske
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Rosie F. (Mrs. Cyrus) Adler
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O. Grusenberg
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Hermann Strick
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Edward Lagansky
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Herbert Solow
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Leon Blum
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Felix Warburg
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Baron Melchett
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Herbert Samuel
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David M. Bressler
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Abram Simon
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Meyer Spilman
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Ralph S. Green
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Felix Dellenasee
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Maurice B. Hexter
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Cyrus Adler
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Shimon Lowenstein
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James N. Rosenberg
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M. M. Ussishkin
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A unique collection of 52 signatures in pencil
on six separate sheets of paper, each 5¾x7, three bearing imprint of lion
and "Baur au Lac/Zurich" in upper left, signed at the Zionist Congress held
in Zurich, Switzerland, probably the Sixteenth Congress in 1929.
Most are signed in English, a few in Hebrew.
Includes:
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Léon Blum (Jewish Prime Minister of France,
1936-1937, 1938)
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Herbert Samuel (1st High Commissioner of Palestine,
1920-1925)
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M. Dizengoff (founder and 1st Mayor of Tel-Aviv)
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Vera R.
Weizmann (First Lady, wife of 1st President of Israel Chaim Weizmann)
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Morris Rothenberg
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Herbert Solow
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James N. Rosenberg
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Cyrus Adler
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Carla
Marburg Rothschild
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Janet Lieberman
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Rebecca Herzmark Safer
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Simon
Marks
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David M. Bressler
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Meyer Spielman
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...and 38 others...
A few days after the Sixteenth Congress had
closed, riots broke out in Palestine.
The Zionist movement was in chaos and Chaim Weizmann, re-elected
President of the World Zionist Organization,
resigned.
