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British Mission to the Jews in Nineteenth-century Palestine (Paperback, New)
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British Mission to the Jews in Nineteenth-century Palestine (Paperback, New)
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A hundred years before the League of Nations gave Britain the
Mandate over Palestine, the emissaries of the London Society for
Promoting Christianity Amongst the Jews, a Protestant organization,
were the first to take root in the Holy Land. From 1820 onwards,
their pioneering efforts compelled other churches, and the European
powers that they represented, as well as the Jewish world, to
become more engaged in the vigorous activities taking place in the
Land of Israel, in order not to allow the Protestants to hold sway.
Thus, the Society initiated a process that was to be of significant
value in the restoration of the country when it was transformed,
mainly as a result of mass Jewish immigration, from a remote and
isolated region into one of the most flourishing provinces of the
Ottoman Empire. The initial hopes of the Society to hasten the
second advent of the Christian Messiah through the conversion of
the Jews were not realized. Only a handful of the Jews in the
country were caught in the Mission's net. Yet the society - by
establishing the first modern institutions of medical care,
education and charity - made a valuable contribution to progress in
general. Although the Lond
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