Atlas der Jüdischen Welt [Atlas of the Jewish World].

Thirty colour plates containing a variety of diagrams, maps, graphs and charts with abundant information and economic data regarding Palestine and its Jewish population (settlement areas, population growth, quarries, import and export data and more).

David Trietsch (1870–1935) was a Zionist leader and author, born in Dresden, Germany. Trietsch was educated in Berlin and subsequently studied migration problems in New York. There, in 1895, he conceived the idea of settling Jews in Cyprus, but he pursued this notion only after attending the First Zionist Congress of 1897. He opposed Theodor Herzl's political Zionism, insisting on immediate practical settlement wherever possible in the vicinity of Palestine. He tried in vain to persuade the Zionist Movement to adopt his conception of a 'Greater Palestine', which was to comprise Palestine proper, Cyprus, and El-Arish (Egyptian city on the Sinai Peninsula). After negotiations with the High Commissioner of Cyprus in 1899, Trietsch brought a group 11 Boryslaw miners to the island in 1900, but this attempt ended in failure, because of inadequate preparation of both the settlers and of the land.

Trietsch regarded Herzl's negotiations with the British authorities for a settlement in El-Arish (1902–03) as 'an acceptance by Herzl of his program without him', this led to a permanent rupture between the two men. Trietsch subsequently founded the Juedische Orient-Kolonisations-Gesellschaft (Jewish Society for the Colonisation of the Orient) in Berlin, in whose name he negotiated with the London Colonial Office in 1903 concerning a settlement in Cyprus, but was turned down.

Not found in NLI. One copy in OCLC.