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MembersAbraham’s Vineyard in Mandate Jerusalem: A Messianic fiasco (Part 2)

The continuing saga of the ultimately failed efforts to establish a “Messianic Jewish” colony in the Holy Land.

New Trustees of Abraham's Vineyard, left-to-right - Aaron Gold-Levin, Leon Levison, S. B. Rohold, THC, vol.2 July 1929 p. 64a. Courtesy Gershon Nerel

See Part I: Abraham’s Vineyard in Mandate Jerusalem: A Messianic failure

In September of 1925, the International Hebrew Christian Alliance (IHCA) was established in London, with Sir Leon Levison (1881-1936) as its first President. About four years later the new Alliance became the legal proprietor of ‘Abraham’s Vineyard’ (AV) in Jerusalem. Leaders of the IHCA had proudly announced in The Hebrew Christian (THC), their quarterly magazine (vol. 2, October 1929, p. 88), that the mainstream Jewish press had commented all over the world about ‘the great event’ of handing over of AV to the care of the IHCA. Under the heading ‘News and Notes,’ they had written:

“In the cuttings from the Jewish papers of Poland, America, Canada, Russia, Palestine, Rumania, Germany Hungary and the East, in general, which we have received, it appears that not only are we credited with having started something substantial by way of witness, and also of beginning to do effective work in the Holy Land, but we are credited...

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