Official Postcard of the Sixth Zionist Congress

Those Who Sow in Tears Will Reap the Harvest, official postcard of the Sixth Zionist Congress, Basel, 1903, with postmark. The Sixth Zionist Congress marked a watershed moment for the Zionist movement in Europe. The British government presented Theodor Herzl with the option to settle an autonomous Jewish community in British East Africa (in land now part of Kenya). Herzl believed this option would be an appropriate temporary solution to the immediate dangers faced by the Jews of Europe and continued to maintain belief in a Jewish homeland in the Land of Israel. However, many of the delegates at the Congress were incensed by the proposal. Despite the backlash, the delegates voted to explore the "Uganda Plan," as it was known. At the Seventh Zionist Congress in 1905, however, the proposal was ultimately rejected.