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Franz Kobler:
"The Vision Was There.
A History of the British Movement for the Restoration of the Jews to Palestine"
London, 1956

Contents:
Brit-Am Note

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION: Origins of the Movement

PART ONE
-THE BEGINNINGS OF THE MOVEMENT
(End of the Sixteenth Century to 1666)

1. Pioneers and Martyrs. 
II. Messiahs and Prophets in the Great Rebellion         
III. Menasseh ben Israel's Answer:       Restoration
through Readmission           -          
IV. " Annus Mirabilis" and Sabbatai Zevi

PART TWO
CONSOLIDATION AND TRANSITION
POLITICAL ACTIVITY (1666-1830)

I. Development of the Doctrine
II. The Millenarian Revival in the Era of the French Revolution
III. The Movement Gathers Strength
IV. The Voice of Poetry
V. The Response of Jewry and an American Interlude

 
PART THREE
THE GREAT CHANCE:
THE EASTERN QUESTION (1830-1845)

I. Lord Shaftesbury and the Heyday of the Movement
II. Aftermath
III. Jews Join the Movement
IV. The Epic and the Epilogue: Judah's Lion and Tancred

 
PART FOUR
DIFFERENTIATION AND SYNTHESIS (1845-4895)

I. New Men and New Schemes
II. The Movement during the Crimean War
III. Continuance and Transformation
IV. The Visions of Robert Browning and George Eliot
V. The Eastern Question 1877-78
and Disraeli's Restoration Experiment
VI. Laurence Oliphant meets the Lovers of Zion 
VII. The Movement before the Advent of Zionism

 
PART FIVE
CO-OPERATION WITH THE ZIONIST MOVEMENT (1895-1917)

I. Theodor Herzl and his Prophet
II. At the Archimedian Point
III. The New "Decree of Cyrus"

POSTSCRIPT
BIBLIOGRAPHY
 

See also:
Biblical Proofs
http://www.britam.org/Proof/ProofsIntro.html
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