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A Portuguese Palestine

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

Adam Rovner | Published in History Today Volume 62 Issue 12 December 2012

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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