1st edition thus, 8vo, 45 pages, 23 cm. In German. The World Zionist Organization was “Founded as the Zionist Organization, or ZO, in 1897 at the First Zionist Congress, held from August 29 to August 31 in Basel, Switzerland. The ZO's newspaper Die Welt was founded in the same year. It changed its name to World Zionist Organization in January 1960.The ZO served as an umbrella organization for the Zionist movement, whose objective was the creation of a Jewish homeland in Eretz Yisrael – at that time under the Ottoman Empire and following the First World War, the British Mandate of Palestine. When the State of Israel was declared 51 years later on May 14, 1948, many of its new administrative institutions were already in place, having evolved during the regular Zionist Congresses of the previous decades. Some of these institutions remain to this day” (Wikipedia). OCLC: 8606563. OCLC lists 8 copies worldwide, but only one in North America (HUC). Paper browning, some edgewear and toning to covers, Good+ Condition (BR-12-24)