Chapter I: Front Matter

HISTORY OF ZIONISM
1600‒1918

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Illustration: (‡ Dr. Theodor Herzl)

History of Zionism
1600‒1918

BY

NAHUM SOKOLOW

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY

THE Rᵀ. HON. A. J. BALFOUR, M.P.

_WITH EIGHTY-NINE PORTRAITS AND ILLUSTRATIONS_
Selected and Arranged

BY ISRAEL SOLOMONS

IN TWO VOLUMES

VOL I.

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