Word: zionism
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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...
...finance corporation, approved a budget for the ensuing year of $3,750,000 for work, $5,000,000 for buying land. At the conclusion of the meeting Baron Edmond de Rothschild of France was elected honorary president of the Council, with Dr. Chaim Weizmann of London, main spring of Zionism, as real president. Two U. S. Jews were prominent...
...last comrade that Herzl talked with. He was a worn and spent man. I asked him whether we could not free him from the necessity of potboiling for his Vienna newspaper. . . 'I dare not,' he answered, 'lest it be said I live on Zionism rather than...
...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...
...Stream, Mr. Lewisohn began the spiritual autobiography of a Jew who, conventionally educated in South Carolina, flung his religious ardor into Methodism, progressed miraculously into free thought, attained at last an understanding of his Jewishness. Immersed for seven years in the cause of Zionism, he resumes in Mid-Channel the intimate personal chronicle of himself as a Jew wandering over the face of Europe...