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A Pilgrimage To Palestine
Author: Harry Emerson Fosdick

A PILGRIMAGE TO PALESTINE BY HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK, D. r amp gt. NEW YORK THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1949 FOREWORD In one sense this is a fresh edition of an old book. It was first published over twenty years ago, but today it is a new volume with contemporary meaning, written as though especially for the crisis in Palestine that con fronts the world... more ». The events that now render Palestine a cause of profound concern to all mankind make knowledge of the land, its history and its present prob lems, of vital, contemporary interest. The book s plan and structure help to increase its immediate relevance to present-day affairs. It was not written simply as a travelogue of the Holy Land, or as a treatise which, partitioning the land, dealt exhaus tively with each geographical district. Instead, I let history provide the structure. After two introductory chapters on the geographical setting and historical background of the country as a whole, I ask the reader to follow, from the Hebrews at Sinai to the modem Zionists, the successive eras of Palestine s story as they were illustrated by my pilgrimage. The pilgrimage came at a fortunate time for the book s present purposes. Already the new era had be amp lt nur the Zionists were founding their colonies and beginning their struggle with the reluctantly fruitful Vll viii A PILGRIMAGE TO PALESTINE land already the cleavages within Zionism, which now have issued in differences as great as those between the Sternists and the Israelis, had become visible. Nevertheless, the old Palestine was still there, with much of its primitiveness uninvaded by modernity. We had a chance to see what never again will be so avail able the old land in which one could fairly see the ancient patriarchs alive again, and the new land begin ning an era of mechanized modernness, stirred by the world s life, and itself becoming one of the world s major problems. Events move swiftly now in Palestine, and even die wisest cannot prophesy what the outcome will be. In watching the fascinating and momentously important progress of affairs there, the background is of first-rate significance to the onlooker. I have tried to give it here as a matter of personal, first-hand observance. To be sure, when Mrs. Fosdick and I made this jour ney spending four months in Egypt, Palestine and Syria the present strife was only in the making. We stayed at the American Colony, never dreaming that within twenty years it would be a target for blazing guns. We walked in peace the paths that the prophets and the Christ had traveled undisturbed save by fight ing in Syria between the French and Arabs, so that Caesarea Philippi was closed to visitors. We watched the developing Zionist colonies and saw in their incep tion all the trends that have since come to prominence from the ideals of cultural Zionism held by men like Rabbi Judah Magnes, late President of the Hebrew FOREWORD ix University in Jerusalem, to extremists, called then Re visionists, insistent on political sovereignty for the Jews. Moreover, Hadji Ameen el Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Palestine s Moslems, said to me personally, quot I am a man of religion, and therefore of peace, but the proportion of Jews to Arabs in Palestine is now rising. If it passes a certain point there will be war. quot To the editors of the Ladies Home Journal for their interest and cooperation, and to the members of the American Colony in Jerusalem for their invaluable kindness and goodwill, I am especially in debt. Nor may I neglect to mention my colleague, Professor Julius A. Bewer, who took pains to read the entire manuscript of the book, and my then secretary, Miss Margaret Renton, who combed it with painstaking care to substantiate the accuracy of its statements. Let me also bear witness to my personal appreciation of Mr. Henry J. Soulen s companionship...

ISBN-13: 9781406744897
ISBN-10: 1406744891
Publication Date: 3/15/2007
Pages: 344
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Publisher: Curzon Press
Book Type: Paperback
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