INV. 100 · Manuscript

Balfour Declaration

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Original British document that favored a Jewish national home in Palestine.

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Type: Manuscript
Nature: Period documentAn original document, print or object produced in the very period it illustrates.
Date of the object: c. 1917Approximate date based on the object's identification.
Image: United Kingdom Government, signed by Arthur Balfour
Licence: Public domain
Origin: Wikimedia Commons: Balfour declaration unmarked.jpg ↗
Retrieved: Commons API, 2026-10-15

Sourced historical context

In November 1917, the British cabinet favored a Jewish national home in Palestine. The text protected the rights of non-Jews in Palestine and of Jews in other countries.

Events

1898–1920 Sport, Husayn, and the Balfour Declaration