The Angola Plan for Jewish Colonization

Wolf Terló

1915

The idea of reopening the doors of Portugal and its colonies to Jews is not new. It is born out of a spirit of non-Jews and Jews, who know firsthand the nobility and high-mindedness of Portuguese society and the total absence of fanaticism within it. I know many people who are credited with having this idea but it did not go beyond being just an…

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Wolf Terló

b. ca. 1872–Date Unknown

Born in Russia, Wolf Terló arrived in Jaffa in 1891 during the second wave of the First Aliyah. Studying agronomy, he was encouraged to spend time in France, where he became a viticulturist. In 1904, Terló moved to Portugal as a viticultural extension agent for the Portuguese Ministry of Agriculture. With the fall of Portuguese monarchy in 1910, Terló began advocating for a Jewish Portuguese colonial territorial arrangement in Angola as reparations for the expulsion and Inquisition; the idea was supported by Israel Zangwill and the Jewish Territorialist Organization.

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