Three Issues of "HaZfirah" Newspaper – 1899-1903 – Articles about the Sixth Zionist Congress and the "Uganda Plan"

Three Issues of "HaZfirah" Newspaper – 1899-1903 – Articles about the Sixth Zionist Congress and the "Uganda Plan"
Seven issues of "HaZfirah" newspaper with articles about Zionism and the sixth Zionist Congress. Warsaw, 1899-1903.
1. Issue no. 287 (26th year), December 26, 1899. This issue includes an article titled "Our people lives not on bread only", dealing with Zionism, and the political section "Divrei HaYamim" by Nahum Sokolow.
2-7. Issues 183-188 (30th year), 21-26 August, 1903. Printed in these issues are an article titled "Redemption of the Land" and news from the sixth Zionist Congress.
Printed on the title page of issue no. 184 (21.8.1903) are a greeting on the occasion of the opening of the congress and an illustration of Theodor Herzl on the balcony of the "Three Angels" hotel in Basel (after the famous photograph by E.M. Lilien). Issue no. 188 (26.8.1903) features Herzl's speech delivered at the opening of the congress and summaries of first sessions of the congress (including the Uganda Plan).
"HaZfirah" was the first Hebrew newspaper in Poland during the Russian regime and one of the most important and popular newspapers printed in east Europe. It was founded in Warsaw in 1862, by Haim Zelig Slonimsky and was published irregularly (in different formats) until 1931. In its early days, the paper was devoted to spreading the ideas of the Haskalah. In ca. 1875 it started to publish articles by Nahum Sokolow who later became the editor of the newspaper. Following a meeting between Sokolow and Theodor Herzl during the first Zionist Congress in 1897, "HaZfrah" became the official voice of political Zionism.
Total of 7 issues, approx. 47-51 cm. Condition varies. Fair overall condition. Stains (some dark). Folding marks, creases and tears (among them some large tears, open).