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From: "msjallen" <>
Subject: Re: [LITHUANIA-L] The Jewish Colonial Trust Ltd.
Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 16:16:49 -0400
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Thank you for clarifying that ... now that I read your explanation it does
ring a vague bell from long ago (back in the dark ages) college World
History and Comparative Religion classes! So busy always trying to learn
new things, that I guess I've forgotten some of the old (which makes it NEW
again!) Thanks!
Sharon A.
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From: "Prof. G. L. Esterson" <>
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Sent: Monday, May 05, 2003 12:58 PM
Subject: [LITHUANIA-L] The Jewish Colonial Trust Ltd.


> Sharon posted as follows:
>
> "I'm confused and imagine others might be as well ... how could there be a
> fund established "in the early 20th century ... to grant credit for the
> establishment of Zionist activities in the Land of
> Israel" when the Land of Israel had not been conceived or named and did
not
> exist yet?"
>
> This land at the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea was always called by
> Jews "Erets Yisrael" (or the Land of Israel), because it had been granted
> to Abraham as part of the Covenant between G-d and Abraham. So, whenever
> Jews have referred to this land in olden days, it was always called the
> Land of Israel.
>
> Hertzl was the man who called the first Zionist Congress in the late
1800's
> in order to propose the active pursuit of re-establishing the Jewish
> homeland in this ancient promised place -- to bring the covenant to
> fruition. This followed the terrible pogroms in Eastern Europe under the
> Russians, occurring after the Czar was assassinated in 1881 with
> accusations that the Jews were responsible for his death. Beginning that
> year, and until the beginning of the First World War in 1914, two and a
> half million Jews exited from Europe, eight five percent of them to the
> US. When non-Jews who also suffered during those years saw the Jews
> leaving Europe, many other followed them abroad, many to the US, the
> "Golden Land".
>
> Jerry
>
> Professor G. L. Esterson, Ra'anana, Israel
>
>
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