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...Kook (for he is somehow colonel) is Chief Rabbi of Palestine. He is the most venerable figure in contemporary Judaism. Born in northern Russia, his early ambition was to go someday to Palestine. For this purpose he studied Hebrew clandestinely. Twenty years ago he was offered the Rabbinate of Jaffa, and, giving up a well-paying position as rabbi of Busk, Russia, he went. Today the Jewish world regards him as its philosopher-saint. His landing on American soil was greeted by 300 rabbis and thousands of aged patriarchs, standing in the windy cold. Why did he come...
Last week came to the U. S. a funny-looking little man with a beard, named Abraham Isaac Kook. His visit may bring forth, for the benefit of the American Jew, as well as for the American Gentile, a more coherent account of this figure of speech, Zionism...
Chief Rabbi Kook stated that Israel Zangwill was absolutely mistaken in his condemnation of Great Britain. "The English are no angels, of course," said he, "but their Palestinian motives are in the main idealistic." He is on the most friendly terms with High Commissioner Sir Herbert Samuel. Sir Herbert, says he, has brought about close coöperation between him, the Roman Catholic Bishop, the Greek Orthodox Patriarch, and the Mufti* of the Moslems...
...reporter of the New York Evening Post (paper owned by Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis) innocent of all knowledge of Zionism, succeeded only in asking Rabbi Kook what he thought of America. Answer: "Very nice country. Nice reception. Nice mayor. Cannot tell yet about people...
...Untermyer, Felix M. Warburg, Sigmund Freud, Simon Flexner, Julius Rosenwald, Irving Lehman, Julian W. Mack, Leon Trotzky, Max Lieberman, Adolph S. Ochs, Ahad Ha'am and Abram I. Elkus, Albert A. Michelson, Henrietta Szold, Jacques Loeb, Luigi Luzzati, Leopold Auer, Cyrus Adler, Herman Bernstein, Lee K. Frankel, A. I. Kook, David Belasco, Samuel Gompers, Israel Abrahams, Max Reinhardt, Joseph Rosenblatt, Sir Alfred Mond, Milton J. Rosenau, Jakob Wasserman, Jascha Heifitz, Maximilian Harden, Benjamin N. Cardozo, Otto Warburg, Jacob Epstein, Joseph H. Hertz...