"Megilat Meshulam Maggid - If I Were Sokolov" - Unique Booklet about the Vision of the Jewish State - Bucharest ...

"Megilat Meshulam Maggid - If I Were Sokolov" - Unique Booklet about the Vision of the Jewish State - Bucharest, 1925 - The Only Copy in the World
Meghilath Mesulem Maggid - Dasa Asi fi Sokolow… [The Scroll of Meshulam Maggid - or if I were Sokolov]. By "Ba'al Ha'Chalomot". Translated to Romanian by Paceanu. Bucharest, 1925.
Extremely rare Zionist Booklet. Printed in a numbered edition of only 100 copies! Before us is copy No. 11. The booklet is bibliographically unknown and does not appear in libraries in Israel and libraries around the world. The copy before us is most likely the only copy that has survived of this important booklet.
The booklet was written by an anonymous writer bearing the penname "Ba'al Ha'Chalomot" (the visionary). We do not know who the writer is. We do know that "Ha'Nokem" (the avenger) Shalom Schwartzbard, who assassinated the Ukrainian national leader Symon Petliura, used to use the pseudonym "Ba'al Ha'Chalomot"' However, we cannot conclusively decide whether he is indeed the writer of the booklet.
On the title page, a long handwritten dedication (in Romanian), most likely, the author's handwriting: "to my brother in opinion and aspiration, Dr. Y. Schreiber Obrowitz[?]" (these words are in Hebrew).
The booklet is a monologue of a Jew sitting in a European synagogue thinking about the revival of the Jewish nation in its country.
At the end of the booklet, there is a 500-word passage of a speech the author gives before the nations and important diplomats, while imagining what he would have said if he had been standing in place of Nachum Sokolov, who those days served as the head of the Zionists. In his speech, the author explains the Zionist vision of the Jewish nation.
The writer explains that the source for the Land of Israel belonging to the Jewish Nation is the bible - the Divine promise to Abraham that his descendants shall inherit the Land of Israel. The writer describes depressing cases of Jews fighting each other in World War I, leaving many orphans behind. He describes the reality of Jews who enlisted enthusiastically to the Jewish Brigade but were given minor, difficult jobs such as building roads and maintenance, which caused them great disappointment. Thus, says the writer, it is time to establish a Hebrew State and a Hebrew army. To conclude, the writer addresses the borders of the future Hebrew state and states that the Jewish nation demands the borders of the Promised Land, which include Transjordan and the Sinai Desert.
39 pp.
16x23.5 cm.
Condition: Good. Pink jacket with tears.