An Unpromised Land by Leon Gettler

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Clean and tidy copy with minor edgewear to book and dust jacket. Dust jacket has been covered in protective plastic.

A lively account of the little-known Kimberley Region Jewish Settlement Scheme.

In 1939, the Freeland League for Jewish Territorial Colonisation identified the Kimberley as a place to resettle 75,000 European Jews fleeing rampant anti-Semitism. Despite significant support for the scheme, it was eventually vetoed by the Menzies Government as the creation of "distinctive alien communities" would not be in the national interest.