Original Cloth. 8vo. 151 pages. 24 cm. First edition. Introduction by Judge Julian Mack. Decorative border illustration at the bottom of each page. Essays on 'social zionism', 'a social commonwealth in palestine', 'jewish law and a sanhedrin', 'a jewish industrial army', 'zionist state and the land problems', 'a jewish commonwealth in zion', by Bernard Rosenblatt (1886-1969) : “In 1919 he accompanied Felix Frankfurter to the Versailles Peace Conference to assist his efforts to have a clause included in the Palestine Mandate opposing land speculation. He became a New York City magistrate in 1921 and was elected to the World Zionist Executive that same year. He floated the first Palestinian municipal bonds in the United States, the forerunner of the Israel Bond campaign. Mr. Rosenblatt served at various times as president of the Jewish National Fund and Keren Hayesod and was a vice president and honorary Secretary of the Zionist Organization of America. He was an officer of several Jewish business enterprises in Palestine and was the first president of the American Zion Commonwealth, a land purchasing and settlement agency he founded in 1915 which established the communities of Balfouria, Afule and Herzlia and the Haifa Bay Settlement in Palestine. ” - JTA Obituary, October 16, 1969. Subjects: Zionism. Jews - Politics and government. Jews - Social conditions. Light soiling to cloth, otherwise clean and fresh. Very good condition. (ZION-4-43)