The Dreyfus Exhibit at National Library of Israel in Jerusalem Over a century later, the Dreyfus affair continues to hold lessons about justice, racism, human rights and the role of the media By Shula Kopf For 38 years the three boxes containing original letters and artifacts of Alfred Dreyfus collected dust in relative obscurity in […]
Captain Dreyfus is wrongly Court-Martialed by the French Military
Foreign Office to Sir F. Clare-Ford Affront: Ottoman Prohibition of Jewish Land Purchases in Palestine FO 78/4476 – No. 146 Draft F.O. 14 June 1893 Sir, y. Excl’s despatch no 199 of the 17th ult. Enclosed copies of petitions addressed to the consul at Jerusalem by certain British subjects of the Jewish faith, in which […]
“The Great Game” was the strategic rivalry and conflict between the British Empire and the Russian Empire for a supremacy in Central Asia between 1813 and 1907 that threatened to destroy the “Jewel in the Crown” of the British Empire, India. THE RUSSIAN STATEMENT OF THE PAMIR (E.G. TURKESTAN) QUESTION. Sir,-The letter of your St. […]
“WITHOUT INDIA THE BRITISH EMPIRE COULD NOT EXIST. THE POSSESSION OF INDIA IS THE INALIENABLE BADGE OF SOVEREIGNTY IN THE EASTERN HEMISPHERE.” Source: Curzon, George N. Persia and the Persian Question, London, 1892, vol I, p. 4
Jacob Freud’s dedication in the family Bible, written to his son, Sigmund Freud, on his thirty-fifth birthday in May, 1891. 1. ‘Son who is dear to me, Shelomoh, [Jeremiah] 2. In the seventh in the days of your the years of your life [Genesis] the Spirit of the Lord began to move you [Judges] 3. […]
President Benjamin Harrison: 1889-1893 “This government has found occasion to express in a friendly spirit, but with much earnestness, to the government of the czar its serious concern because of the harsh measures now being enforced against the Hebrews in Russia. By the revival of anti-Semitic laws, long in abeyance, great numbers of those unfortunate […]
Benjamin Harrison (1889 – 1893) Pogroms In Russia and Reaction by the Congress of USA Session: 51st Congress 1st US House of Representatives, Report No.2961 Jews in Russia August 13, 1890- Referred to the House calendar and ordered to be printed. Mr. HITT, from the Committee of Foreign Affairs, submitted the following: The Committee on […]
During 1885-1894, also published and wrote much of the contents of a journal he called Self-Emancipation!, which is where he coined the term “Zionism” in 1890 – five years before Theodor Herzl wrote “Der Judenstaat.” (He also was the first to use the term “political Zionism,” in the same periodical.) For his early advocacy of […]
