Quotation from Theodor Herzl “I saved them from an influx of East European Jews ” — Jul. 4 1902
In London, speaking to Lord Nathaniel Rothschild, a non-Zionist, about the anti-Semitic Alien Bill, Herzl argued for Jewish emigration to the Middle East under British protection as a means of deflecting anti-Semitism.
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- Herzl, Theodor (1860-1904) ( 27 quotations )
- Contempt for the poor Jews of Eastern Europe ( 9 quotations )
"I would be a mean creature if I said only things that could lead to a restriction of immigration. But I would be one of those mean creatures to whom the English Jews ought to erect a monument out of gratitude, because I saved them from an influx of East European Jews and thus perhaps from anti-Semitism. However, I have a plan for remedying the situation, and I want to tell it to the Commission.
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The complete diaries of Theodor Herzl, Raphael Patai ed., p. 1295
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