Resource Pack

Balfour Declaration

The Balfour Declaration was a letter sent by the British Foreign Secretary Lord Balfour to Lord Rothschild on November 2, 1917 that expressed the British government’s support for the Zionist enterprise. This resource pack includes a variety of primary sources about the Balfour Declaration, the people involved and public reaction.

Primary Sources

Cartoon About the Bund’s Reaction to the Balfour Declaration, 1927

Thirty Years Since the Balfour Declaration

Letters from Ben-Yehuda

Arabic Poster Calling for A General Strike

Twenty-One Years Since the Balfour Declaration, 1938

Lord Rothschild’s Letter

Philip Magnus’s Letter, 1917

Balfour’s Letters

Death Announcement of Lord Balfour, 1930

Opening of the Hebrew University, 1925

Municipal Notice, Tel Aviv, 1925

Balfour’s Trip to Israel, 1925

Ahad Ha’am’s Translation of the Balfour Declaration

Letter of Greeting to King George V, 1935

Translation of Arab Article about the Balfour Declaration

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