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17-961: Zadoc Kahn presented the German Jewish philanthropist Baron Maurice de Hirsch with the project of setting up a Jewish settlement in Argentina, before JCA was created in 1891. Theodor Herzl considered it expensive and unrealistic. In 1896, when Hirsch died, the association owned a thousand square kilometers of land in the country on which lived a thousand households, the “ Jewish gauchos ”. It focused on agricultural settlements in Argentina until East European Jews were forbidden to emigrate there. In 1920, 150,000 Jews lived in Argentina and new settlements appeared: ( Lapin , Rivera ), Entre Ríos (San Gregorio, Villa Domínguez, Carmel, Ingeniero Sajaroff, Villa Clara, and Villaguay), and Santa Fe ( Moisés Ville ) (about 64% Jews lived in Entre Ríos). In 1896

34-658: Is in the historic Alsace region of France, and is itself within the Grand Est administrative region of north-eastern France . The first written mention of Mommenheim dates back to the mid 10th century, under the name of Mumlen. In 953, Emperor Otto I. gave his property to the Lorsch Abbey. Mommenheim was a village under the reign of the Holy Roman Empire. The town was spared the Swedish occupation during

51-463: The Thirty Years' War . In 1733, the village was largely destroyed by a large fire, fed among other things by multiple hay barns in the commune. In 1850, the station of Mommenheim is built, it is on the way of the line Strasbourg-Sarrebourg, inaugurated the following year. The line linking Mommenheim and Sarreguemines was inaugurated in 1895. In 1898, the first fire brigade of the commune

68-476: The United States in southern New Jersey , Ellington, Connecticut ( Congregation Knesseth Israel ), and elsewhere. The JCA also established two agricultural settlements in the first two decades of the 20th century in what now is Turkey . In 1891, JCA bought land near Karataş, Izmir , Turkey, and established an agricultural training centre, or Yehudah, on an area totaling 30 km² by 1902. The centre

85-586: The rabbinical school of Metz , finishing his theological studies at the same institution after it had been established at Paris as the Séminaire Israélite; and on graduation he was appointed director of the Talmud Torah , the preparatory school of the seminary. In 1867 he was appointed assistant to Chief Rabbi Lazare Isidor of Paris, whom he succeeded in the following year, when Isidor became chief rabbi of France. As Kahn had not yet reached

102-555: The 21st century, the organisation has focused its efforts on fostering the development of the peripheral regions of the Galilee (north) and the Negev (south). Operating under the name Jewish Charitable Association, it describes itself as "championing innovative projects in the realms of education, agriculture, economic development and cross-community opportunities (for both Arabs and Jews) within rural areas." Settlements were founded within

119-818: The German Jewish philanthropist Baron Maurice de Hirsch the project of setting up a Jewish colony in Argentina , before he created the Jewish Colonisation Association (I.C.A.) in 1891. Kahn helped obtain financial assistance via auspices of the Rothschild family for Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy , in June 1894; whom later would be deeply implicated in the Dreyfus affair . He aided in establishing many private charitable institutions, including

136-835: The JCA started offering support to Jewish farming communities newly established in Ottoman Palestine . In 1899 Baron Edmond James de Rothschild transferred title to his settlements (" moshavot ") in Palestine along with fifteen million francs to the JCA. Starting on January 1, 1900, the JCA restructured the way in which the settlements received financial and managerial support, with the effect of making them more profitable and independent. Between 1900 and 1903 it created 4 new moshavot , Kfar Tavor , Yavniel , Melahamia (Menahamia) , and Bait Vegan. In addition, it established an agricultural training farm at Sejera . The Palestine operation

153-810: The JCA was established in November 1906 to assist in the settlement of thousands of Jewish refugees fleeing Russia, and to oversee the development of all JCA settlements in the country. Economic factors, notably the Great Depression , led to the dissolution of all western Canadian settlements by the end of World War II. Thereafter concentrating its work in the east, the Canadian chapter of the JCA purchased farms and made loans to farmers in Ontario and Quebec. The JCA Canadian Committee made no loans after 1970 and ceased all legal existence in 1978. The JCA deposited

170-628: The Refuge du Plessis-Piquet, near Paris, an agricultural school for abandoned children, and the Maison de Retraite at Neuilly-sur-Seine , for young girls. He was appointed Chevalier of the Legion of Honor in 1879 and Officer in 1901. He was also Officer of Public Instruction. Zadoc Kahn was one of the founders, the first vice-president, and, soon after, president, of the Société des Études Juives (1879). He

187-654: The majority of its papers at the National Archives of the Canadian Jewish Congress in 1978, and the remainder (the "S" collection) there in 1989. Zadoc Kahn Zadoc Kahn ( French pronunciation: [zadɔk kan] ; 18 February 1839 in Mommenheim , Alsace – 8 December 1905 in Paris ) was an Alsatian - French rabbi and chief rabbi of France . In 1856 he entered

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204-403: The prescribed age of 30, he had to obtain a dispensation before he could accept the office, his election to which had been largely due to his thesis L'Esclavage Selon la Bible et le Talmud (1867; later translated into German and Hebrew ). The community of Paris attained to a high degree of prosperity and enlightenment under Kahn's administration. On Chief Rabbi Isidor's death in 1889 Kahn

221-666: Was closed in 1926 owing to numerous difficulties. A group of Romanian Jews in Anatolia were assisted by JCA in the early 20th century to establish an immigration bureau in Istanbul in 1910. The JCA also bought land in the Asian part of Istanbul and founded Mesillah Hadassah agricultural settlement for several hundred families. In 1928 the settlements were mostly liquidated, with only the immigration bureau remaining to assist migrants in their migration to Palestine . A Canadian Committee of

238-598: Was considered a brilliant orator, and one of his most noteworthy addresses was delivered on the centenary (11 May 1889) of the French Revolution — "La Révolution Française et le Judaïsme". Kahn has published the following works: Mommenheim, Bas-Rhin Mommenheim ( French pronunciation: [mɔmənaim] ; Alsatian : Mummle ) is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department . The department

255-599: Was created. In 1871, Mommenheim was attached to Germany at the same time as Alsace and Moselle . During the First World War , 1917, village bells were used in the manufacture of ammunition. After the Second World War , the number of inhabitants from the Jewish community, which accounted for up to a third of the village’s population in 1898, declined sharply. The nineteenth century synagogue survived

272-606: Was restructured by Baron de Rothschild in 1924 as the Palestine Jewish Colonization Association (PICA), with his son James Armand de Rothschild appointed as life President. PICA transferred most of its properties to the State of Israel in 1957 and 1958. ICA resumed activities in Palestine in 1933, at first in association with another fund and from 1955 onwards by itself as "ICA in Israel". In

289-660: Was unanimously elected chief rabbi of France, and was inducted on 25 March 1890. He then entered upon a period of many-sided philanthropic activity. He organized the relief movement in behalf of the Jews expelled from Russia subsequent to enactment of May Laws under minister Nikolay Pavlovich Ignatyev and czar Alexander III , and gave much of his time to the work of the Alliance Israélite Universelle , which elected him honorary president in recognition of his services. Against Theodor Herzl , he initiated to

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