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Issue of The Times – November 1917 – First Press Publication of the Balfour Declaration

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Issue of The Times. London, November 9, 1917 (Late War Edition). English.
On page 7, beneath the headline "Palestine for the Jews – Official Sympathy", appears the Balfour Declaration, as it was sent by the British foreign secretary, Arthur James Balfour, in a letter to baron Lionel Walter Rothschild (1869-1937). The same page features an article entitled "The British Victory in Palestine", reporting on the British military campaign in Palestine, led by Edmund Allenby. Additional articles report on the October Revolution, which broke out in Russia two days previously.
In some copies of The Times issued the same day, the same article is entitled "Government Pledge" (see: Kedem, Catalog No. 021, item No. 51).


The Balfour Declaration, according to which, Great Britain intends to support "the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people", was signed by Arthur James Balfour on November 2, 1917, following Chaim Weizmann's insistent lobbying. One week later, on November 9, the declaration was first made public in the media, and was presently considered an unprecedented achievement for the Zionist movement, and a significant step towards the establishment of a Jewish state.


14 pp., approx. 60 cm. Good condition. Fold lines. Minor creases. Marginal tears. Tape to spine.

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