Improvement Era, Vol. 3

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Excerpt from Improvement Era, Vol. 3: November, 1899 Within the past three years, annual conferences have been held at Basle by eminent Jews throughout the world, who have had in view the restoration of the Jewish race to national life. These conferences are creating yearly more interest in the question of the return of the Jews to the home of their ancestors. More than forty years ago the movement toward Palestine began. Among the first to return to the home of their fathers were the Asiatic Jews, chie¿y those Speaking the Arabic language. They came from as far East as China, but mostly from Persia and the valley Of the Mesopotamia. These early home-comers had little or no thought of colonization when they entered Palestine, but had been enthused with the idea that somehow or other it was a sacred duty to return to Jerusalem to die. On the western slope of the Mount of Olives they purchased burial places, some at fabulous prices. They were zealous to be buried within the Shades of the walls which enclosed Mount Moriah, the spot where their sacred temple once stood. AS early as fifteen years ago, this Slope was2 improvement era. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.