Zionist library for boys and girls · 1908-01-01 · 1 · p. Seite 5

stated that TTif His Majesty the Sultan is interested to keep up friendly relationships with the Christian world he should stop cruelty against the Jews at once." The same happened in PeBia. The Alliance in France and the Anglo-Jewish Association in England, under the leadership of Montefiore worked together very closely. It is very interesting to learn that the first agricultural school in Palestine was founded hy the Alliance Israelite Universelle. It is very interesting that these Jews, and Cremieux, who were mostly concerned with the emancipation of the Jews, should turn to Palestine and not to any other country to establish a Jewish school, Palestine belonged to the Turks at that time., it was a poor country, undeveloped and deserted. And still Cremieux was so conscious a Jew that he understood the great value such a school would have for the restoration of Jewish pride and consciousness. Charles letter was sent to Palestine to investigate the possibilities for the foundation of the school. He came back and reported that many Jews in Jerusalem had expressed the wish to send their children to that school and to become tillers