Safranim shalom: The following message was posted on H-Judaica. Perhaps someone can help.
Thanks, David Elazar Rishon LeZion, Israel [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.geocities.com/d_elazar (home page) From: Diana Muir [ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am interested in the history and use of the phrase "a land without a people for a people without a land" (also phrased 'a country without a people for a people without a country') In particular,~I am seeking any use at all~of the phrase pre-dating 1971 by anyone except Zangwill) After 1971, the phrase comes into extremely wide use, cited as a widely-propagated Zionist slogan, but never with any documentation of actual propagation by Zionists. (an imaginative~range of inaccurate attributions does exist) My attempts to find the slogan actually in use by Zionists have come up empty - except for its use by Israel Zangwill and a tiny number of uses~by other Zionists all predating Zangwill's~split with Zionism to form the territorialists. There has already been one paper by~Adam Garfinkle establishing that the phrase was used by two~unconnected restorationists.[1][Marker]~ A~similar effort by Moshe Davis documents use of the phrase by a third restorationist. [1][Marker] If anyone can point me toward any uses of this phrase by anyone dating to any period before 1971, I will be very grateful. Diana Muir reply to [ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------- [1][Marker] Garfinkle, Adam M., On the Origin, Meaning, Use and Abuse of a Phrase. Middle Eastern Studies, London, Oct. 1991, vol. 27, n. 4, p. 539. http://members.dca.net/sotireew/garfinkle.html [1][Marker] Davis, Moshe, America and the Holy Land, Vol. 4 in the series, With Eyes Toward Sion, 1995, Praeger, Westport, CT.~ pp.64-66. Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
