Word: herzl
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Christians, "Zion" means a holy city not of this world. To Jews, Zion connotes a temporal though still only potential refuge. Political Zionism, begun by Theodor Herzl in 1896, not only roused the Jewish national consciousness but made the world increasingly aware that Jews, citizens of every country, had no homeland of their own. After Allenby's last crusade had wrested Palestine from the Turk, the Balfour Declaration (1917) seemed to recognize Jewish rights to at least a share in the modern Canaan. But under the rule of the British mandate both Jew and Arab were irked. Growing...
Several distinguished Jews spoke at last week's meeting, including Chemical Tycoon Lord Melchett and Sir Robert Samuel, famed Liberal. None was more closely attended, however, than orotund Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise of Manhattan, who said: "Theodor Herzl was one of the few men truly epochal . . . because he dared to bid the Jew to be what, for nearly two millenia, he had not dared to be-to be himself, a Jew. . . . Before Herzl came the Jews had been so hurt by the world's ill will that many had denied their own Semitism. Such a denial is infinitely...
...talked last week to English Jews about a Viennese Jew who wanted Jewry to return and live in Palestine. The occasion was a London meeting to memorialize the 25th anniversary of the death of Dr. Theodor Herzl, founder of political Zionism. It was Dr. Herzl who, while reporting the famed Dreyfus affair (1894) for the Vienna Neue Freie Presse, found his attention focused on antiSemitism, his Jewish consciousness aroused.* Two years later, aged 36, he published The Jewish State, a speedily famed pamphlet which, with secular, economic emphasis, advocated Jewish national reunion. Followed congresses, interviews with world rulers, potent propagandizing...
Eloquent, devoted Dr. Herzl, were he , alive today, might visit or live in Tel Aviv, first Zionist city, population 50,000. Its shrubbery, stucco residences, theatre, opera house and 50 schools stand on the dunes outside Jaffa, Palestine. Hebrew alone is spoken. The name of Herzl is almost sacred...
...cellars and lofts-in forests, even. And always the constant danger of denunciation by spies, meaning imprisonment of both the teacher and the parents!" His pride: "I started the first Zionist Society at the College of the City of New York in 1889, seven years before Dr. Theodore Herzl...