ESCO Foundation for Palestine
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The ESCO Foundation for Palestine, or just ESCO Foundation, was a private Zionist 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]
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]