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Article: Views of 1920s Palestine.
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- Judaism
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- January 1, 2004
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DURING THE FIRST DECADE OF THE BRITISH MANDATE, many American academics and intellectuals, both Jews and Christians, visited Palestine. They were interested in viewing the new Jewish experiments in agriculture, the development of new cities such as Tel Aviv, and the opening of the Hebrew University in 1925. Religious Christians who had been coming to the Holy Land since the mid-nineteenth century continued to do so. For Jews, the promise of a Jewish National Home, as articulated in the Balfour Declaration of 1917 by the British to the Zionists, made the new experiment in the ancient land a subject of particular interest. American opinion magazines, such as The New ...
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