THE JEW AND PALESTINE A Land of Impending Glory - An Enthusiastic Account of the Development of the Zionist ...

THE JEW AND PALESTINE A Land of Impending Glory - An Enthusiastic Account of the Development of the Zionist Enterprise in the Land of Israel, by a British Traveler in 1934

THE JEW AND PALESTINE: A Land of Impending Glory – by W. Lamb, published by The Worker Trustees, Australia, 1935. A travel book by a British traveler who visited the Land of Israel in 1934 and was deeply moved by the power of the Zionist enterprise. Lamb urges German Jews to leave as quickly as possible and immigrate to Eretz Israel to take part in the Zionist endeavor. He also addresses European antisemitism and denounces the falsehood of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

Lamb traveled extensively through New Jerusalem, Samaria, Mount Carmel, the Galilee, Tel Aviv, and other cities. Alongside his physical descriptions of the land, he documents the rapid progress of the Zionist movement: "Exactly twenty years after that first Zionist Congress, in 1917, our nation, Great Britain, came to support the Zionist cause through the famous 'Balfour Declaration, ' by which our government pledged itself to the Jewish national aspiration. The British objective is that this scattered people should now be enabled to return once again to the land of their ancestors as an independent nation." He continues: "Great things are happening all the time now in Palestine. As we have seen in the past, this long-desolate Holy Land has been preparing for some great event. The pioneers of an ancient dispersed race are rebuilding the old wastelands… Once agricultural, the land is now pulsing with industrial enthusiasm. The waters of the Jordan and Yarmouk are already harnessed, and they now send electric power from one end of the Holy Land to the other. Where once neither town nor village had sufficient light, the entire land is now surrounded by a network of poles and wires, transmitting power generated to illuminate every dark corner. High-voltage transmission lines carry this energy from the Jordan, eastward… The waters, diverted into turbines, generate 8,500 horsepower in each." Lamb further expresses enthusiasm for Palestine’s growing radio network: "Throughout this land, wireless networks now exist, constantly tuned into the broadcast programs of most major European cities. The daily newspaper, close connection with the world by sea, land, and air, the telegraph, the radio, the cinema, iron, steel, invention, with a constant stream of immigration and ceaseless tourist traffic—all these are part of the strange rebirth that is now unfolding so rapidly in the most mysterious land this world has ever known. In Palestine, perhaps more dramatically than anywhere else…". 

Lamb also writes about the persecution of Jews by the Nazis in Germany and urges German Jews to join the Zionist movement as quickly as possible—both to save themselves before it is too late and to advance the Jewish national revival.

A special chapter is dedicated to The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, in which the author exposes the falsehood of the document. He contrasts the conspiratorial claims made in the Protocols with historical facts and demonstrates that the document is a complete fabrication.

The book also presents data on Jewish settlement in Palestine since 1919, the development of Jewish industry, and describes in detail the miracle of the Jewish people’s return to their homeland after 2,000 years of exile.

208 [2] pages. Good condition.