A Portuguese Palestine

By Adam Rovner
Published in History Today Volume 62 Issue 12 December 2012
Portugal Judaism

Adam Rovner describes the little-known attempt to create a Zion in the Portuguese colony of Angola.

Ephraim Moses Lilien designed this image for the Fifth Congress of Zionists in Basel in 1901. The angel points the oppressed Jew to a sun rising over a new life a new land.

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