Summary
The principal U.S. Zionist organisation in Perceptions of Palestine, founded in 1915 with Louis D. Brandeis among its founders and under his presidency when he was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1916 (Perceptions of Palestine, lines 397-405).
Details
- ZOA membership grew tenfold, from twenty thousand before World War I to almost two hundred thousand during the war, but dropped again to about eighteen thousand by 1929 (lines 530-538).
- A Jewish delegation from Massachusetts, prompted by the ZOA, started the process leading to the 1922 Lodge-Fish joint congressional resolution for a Jewish national home in Palestine, by approaching Senator Henry Cabot Lodge (lines 477-486).
- Zionism lost considerable U.S. support in the 1920s and early 1930s amid disagreements among U.S. Jews and with European Zionists led by Chaim Weizmann; by 1935 Rabbi Stephen Wise, a Brandeis protégé, had taken control of and revitalised Brandeis’s old organisation (lines 572-578).
Related pages
Perceptions of Palestine, Louis D. Brandeis, Stephen Wise, Zionism