ESCO Foundation for Palestine
The ESCO Foundation for Palestine, or just ESCO Foundation, was a private family foundation set up in 1940 by Frank Cohen and named in honor of his wife Ethel Cohen.[1] It was focused on Jewish projects in Mandatory Palestine, later Israel.[1]
Publication[]
One of its best known projects was the publication of Palestine - A Study Of Jewish Arab And British Policies in spring 1947, a two-volume 1350-page source document published by Yale University Press covering the history of Mandatory Palestine, primarily created by (although not attributed to) Isaac Baer Berkson.[1] The work was used by the UNSCOP in their deliberations over the future of the region.[1] The work for the study was begun on 18 April 1942, and the draft versions were used throughout the 1940s by Abba Hillel Silver's American Zionist Emergency Council.[1]
Members[]
"ESCO" is an acrostic for Ethel S. Cohen, one of the founders and the wife of Frank Cohen. Other members of the ESCO boards were: , Dr. , Mark Eisner, Marian Gerber Greenberg, , Dr. , Rose G. Jacobs (President), Dr. Mordecai M. Kaplan, and Dr. .[2] Henrietta Szold was an advisor to the foundation.[1]
Publications[]
- Palestine - A Study Of Jewish Arab And British Policies, Volume 1
- Palestine - A Study Of Jewish Arab And British Policies, Volume 2
References[]
- ^ a b c d e f Marianne Sanua (2002). "The Esco Fund Committee". America and Zion: Essays and Papers in Memory of Moshe Davis. Wayne State University Press. pp. 117–. ISBN 0-8143-3034-7.
- ^ Foreword Palestine - A Study Of Jewish Arab And British Policies, Volume 1
- American Zionists
- Jewish-American press