Katowice Conference
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The Katowice Conference was a convention of Hovevei Zion groups from various countries held in Kattowitz, Germany in November, 1884. It was assembled to address the need of a Jewish state and to devel
Participants of Katowice Conference
Photo believed to show the victims, mostly Jewish children, of a 1905 pogrom in Yekaterinoslav (today's Dnipro).
Invitation to Katowice Conference
Moses Montefiore
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Sir Moses Haim Montefiore, 1st Baronet, was a British financier and banker, activist, philanthropist and Sheriff of London. Born to an Italian Sephardic Jewish family based in London, after he achieve
Katowice Conference
…develop a plan for the creation of a Jewish state. The original date for the conference was chosen to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the birth of Moses Montefiore. The conference was chaired by Leon Pinsker and attended by 32 people, of which 22 were from Russia. It was the first public meeting of Zionists…
Portrait, 1881
Portrait of Montefiore made after he was made an honorary British Army colonel in 1846
Collotype of Moses Montefiore, c. 1885–1900, in the collection of the Jewish Museum of Switzerland.
Montefiore synagogue and tomb of Montefiore in Ramsgate, England