Antedating of "Zionist"
Fred Shapiro
fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Tue Jul 4 23:40:38 UTC 2006
Zionist (OED 1896)
1891 _L.A. Times_ 30 May 1 (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) At the
meeting of zionists the speakers declared that facts were known which
justified the action of the European governments.
Fred Shapiro
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Associate Librarian for Collections and YALE BOOK OF QUOTATIONS
Access and Lecturer in Legal Research Yale University Press,
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