SMALL COLLECTION OF ZIONIST MATERIAL
Small collection of Zionist material from the 1970s showing efforts to build both financial and political support in the United States for the struggling new nation of Israel.
The group includes three memos issued by the national office of the Radical Zionist Alliance (RZA), a grassroots, chapter-based organization officially founded in 1970. The group supported national self-determination for both Jews and Palestinians. Their slogan was “Be a Revolutionary in Zion and a Zionist in the Revolution,” expressing their belief that migration to Israel was the best means to change Israeli society and influence American Jewish consciousness. So many of their key leaders returned to the Promised Land, the RZA ceased functioning in 1972. One of the documents in this group is a one-page typed memo dated October 13, 1970, providing an update about organizing efforts and a call for financial help. “This cannot be overemphasized: WE ARE BROKE. Comrades are not getting propaganda because we can’t always pay to mail it.”
The collection also includes:
Color flyer for the Salute to Israel Parade, held Sunday, April 25, 1971 at 11 a.m. in New York. The community-wide parade was held to celebrate the 23rd anniversary of Israel.
Outreach letter from The Jewish Right dated February 1971. The Los Angeles-based organization promised to galvanize Jewish people against communism and other threats. “It is time that we, the rational, decent, law-abiding and God-fearing true Americans let our voices be heard.”
Flyer for the workshop “Anti-Semitism Today Action & Reaction in the Continuing Crisis” sponsored by Temple Betham in Amherst, New York on Sunday, December 2, 1973.
Flyer and brochure advertising bonds to help support Israel. There is no date on the material, but it is penciled November 1973. The material urges the recipient to provide Israel one-month’s salary: “Continuing war crisis has caused ever increasing defense expenditures…”. Item #76891
Price: $150.00