Sovremennaya Palestina (Modern Palestine) ed. by Israel Belkind, illust. by 10 litho maps and many photos, 1903, Odessa, in Russian
Edition of G.M Levison in Odessa, VIII, 275 pp., 10 color lithographed maps., 10 plates of photos and many photoas in text, tables.
Orig. art nouveau hard calico cover, 23.5 x 15 cm.
Condition: covers detached, rubbed; spine damaged; binding started getting loose; one small block detached; yellow paper; some sporadic foxing stains; some tears to edges of maps.
Современная Палестина в физико-этнографическом и политическом отношениях / сост. по поручению Комитета «Общества вспомоществования евреям земледельцам и ремесленникам в Сирии и Палестине» И. Белькинд. Одесса: Изд. Г.М. Левинсона, [1903]. VIII, 275 с., 10 л. карт., 10 л. фот., 1 л. табл. 23×14 см.
В книге: промышленность, торговля, пути сообщения, еврейское и общее население, политическое разделение Палестины в первый и второй периоды еврейской истории, Иерусалим, еврейские земледельческие колонии и проч.
Israel Belkind (Belarusian: Ізраэль Белкінд, Hebrew: ישראל בלקינד; 1861–1929) was a Jewish educator, author, writer, historian and founder of the Bilu movement. A pioneer of the First Aliyah, Belkind founded the Biluim, a group of Jewish idealists aspiring to settle in the Land of Israel with the political purpose to redeem Eretz Yisrael and re-establish the Jewish State on it.
Israel Belkind was born in the region surrounding Minsk in Belarus, then part of the Russian Empire, to Meir and Shifra Belkind. His siblings were Shimon, Sonia and Olga Belkind Hankin, the last a feminist who was involved with redeeming land in Eretz Yisrael. He received a Hebrew education from his father, who was a leader in the movement which promoted Hebrew education in Russia. Belkind also attended a Russian gymnasium and initially intended to attend university. However, the wave of antisemitic attacks and pogroms against Jews in southern Russia on 1881 instead led him to become intensively involved in Zionist activities. In 1929, Belkind died in Berlin where he had gone to seek medical treatment. His body was brought back to Palestine for burial.[1] He was interred in Rishon LeZion.