Bidspirit auction | Programme of the Official Party

Programme of the Official Party Celebrating the Confirmation of the Balfour Declaration at the San Remo Conference – 1920 – Most Rare! - Souvenir from the official party ”celebrating the giving of the mandate over the Land of Israel, as a homeland for the Jewish people, to Great Britain”. The party was held on 12.7.1920. The chairman was Lord Rothschild. Booklet in English. The booklet contains a description of the importance of the San Remo Conference, the national anthem 'Ha'Tikva' (in its original version) – text in Hebrew and English; a map of Israel with its former borders of the two banks of the Jordan River; a list of the speakers: Robert Cecil, Arthur Balfour, Rabbi Dr. Y. Hertz, Dr. Chaim Weizmann, Nachum Sokolov, Max Nordau, Menachem Ussishkhin, Baron James Rothschild and more. Short essays by Chaim Weizmann and Nachum Sokolov, with their picture. The booklet opens with the picture of Herzl, under which is the inscription, in Hebrew and English: ”Im Tirtzu En Zu Aggadah” (If you will it, it is no dream). The booklet was printed by the Zionists' Center in England. 8 pp. including the cover. Condition: Very Good-Excellent.