Association " Olive tree donation "

In the 1910 edition of the Berlin address book, the following entry can be found under the address Bleibtreustraße 35/36: Palästina-Industrie-Syndikat m.b.H. - Pogroms against the Jewish population in 1880/1881 were probably partly responsible for the fact that in many places in Russia, Rumania and Galicia, and to a lesser extent also in Poland, Germany and England, groups of the " Chowewe Zion " (Friends of Zion) were formed, from among whom a number of students decided to make aliyah (ascent to the land of Israel), went to Palestine and founded agricultural settlements there. In 1864, Zwi Hirsch Kalischer founded a central committee in Berlin for Jewish settlements in Palestine. In Cologne, the Cologne lawyer Dr. Max Bodenheimer and the Lithuanian-born businessman David Wolffsohn founded the Kölner Verein zur Förderung von Ackerbau und Viehzucht " (Kölner Association for the Promotion of Agriculture and Livestock "). The first Jewish village, Rischon le Zion (First in Zion), had already been founded in 1882 in Palestine by Russian-Jewish pioneers, mainly students.Theodor Herzl, the first Zionist Congress in Basel in 1897 and the establishment of the World Zionist Organization that accompanied it laid the foundations for political Zionism. In 1901, the Jewish National Fund was founded. Its first years were characterized by the purchase of land in Palestine, as a result of which the next major task was the reclamation, development and afforestation of the acquired desert areas, rocky landscapes and the cultivation of parched land for the grand vision of the "home of all Jews". In order to come closer to the realization of all these tasks step by step, the Jewish National Fund offered the possibility of donating trees for the reforestation of Palestine. - Interesting features of the enclosed postcard include the two addresses given on it, in Berlin and Cologne.