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2. Kobler Continued: American Participation
3. Kobler Continued: The Arousal of Ephraim
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Franz Kobler
"The Vision Was There.
A History of the British Movement for the Restoration of the Jews to Palestine"
PART TWO
V. The Response of Jewry and an American Interlude http://www.britam.org/vision/koblerpart2.html#Response
Extract: Then, early in the nineteenth
century, the Restoration Movement found its perfect Jewish partner, not in
England but in the English-speaking community on the American continent, where
an offshoot of the British Movement was in the making since the eighteenth
century. In his History of Redemption, Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758), America's
great reformer and philosopher, expressed the hope that "in future glorious
times, both Judah and Ephraim (shall be brought together and shall be united as
one People". Hannah Adams (1755-1831), the first woman to become a restorationist
writer, had no doubt of the ultimate, reunion of Israel with its land. Her
History of the Jews, published in 1812, appeared in London in 1818. In the same
year, John McDonald, Pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Albany, published a
tract Isaiah's Message to the American People, in which he argued that the
"messenger people" chosen to
realise the Restoration of the
Jews was the American nation and that the time for this was at hand.
These restorationist
documents are strongly related to the religious current which in the
Revolutionary War led to a revival of the Puritan spirit displayed 150 years
earlier in the Great Revolution. If Oliver Cromwell identified himself and his
army with the Maccabees,
the fighters for Independence regarded themselves as "God's American Israel" led
by the "American Joshua", George Washington.
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3. KoblerContinued: The Arousal of Ephraim
http://www.britam.org/vision/koblerpart3.html#Lord
Franz Kobler :
"The Vision Was There.
A History of the British Movement for the Restoration of the Jews to Palestine"
Part Three: THE GREAT CHANCE: THE EASTERN QUESTION
I. LORD SHAFTESBURY AND THE HEYDAY OF THE MOVEMENT
Extract: It was he who, in 1838, had taken the
initiative in opening the British Consulate in Jerusalem and upon whose
suggestion Lord Palmerston,
in his instructions to the newly appointed Vice-Consul, W. T. Young, declared it
to be part of his consular duty "to afford protection to the Jews generally".
The policy consistently followed by the office throughout the 76 years of its
existence not only helped to promote the welfare of the Jewish population in
Palestine but also created a personal link between Britain and the Jewish people
at large.
On September 29, 1838,
Shaftesbury wrote in his diary,
"The ancient city of the people of God is about to resume a place among the
nations, and England is the first of the Gentile kingdoms that ceases `to tread
her down'." Inspired by Lord Lindsay's travel book (see p. 58) he wrote a
thirty-page article, State and Prospects of the Jews, which was published in the
Quarterly Review of January-March 1839. In it Shaftesbury
vigorously opposed the attempts of various sovereigns to amalgamate the Jews
with the bulk of their subjects. The wrong done to the Jews by the nations, he
concluded, could be expiated only by their Restoration, and England was
destined, and getting ready, to bring about such a solution.
