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    BALFOUR DECLARATION RECALLED AT SOTHEBY’S BOOK SALE

    Tuesday, July 28th, 2020

    A signed menu from a 1927 dinner at London’s Savoy to mark the tenth anniversary of The Balfour Declaration comes up at Sotheby’s Books and Manuscripts sale which opens today and runs until August 4. The 1917 declaration was a statement from the British government announcing support for the establishment of “a national home for the Jewish people” in Palestine, then an Ottoman region with a minority Jewish population. The declaration was in a letter from then Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour to Lord Rothschild, a leader of the British Jewish community. The menu is signed by guests including Balfour, Nahum Sokolow (chairman of the World Zionist executive), the physicist Sir Ernest Rutherford, James de Rothschild and P.M.W. MacDonagh, almost certainly the Limerick born Irish journalist Michael MacDonagh. It is estimated at £400-600.

    UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR £2,394