Word: zionism
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...Zionism grew out of the Messianic hopes of oppressed Orthodox Jews in Europe With the late great Theodor Herzl (1860-1904) it became concrete (creation of a National Jewish Home in Palestine secured by public law), and economic (Jews as a group were to finance their impoverished coreligionists). The religious aspect of Zionism has become practically nil. Formerly many influential Jews opposed Zionism. Now few do.* Zionism became a political actuality during and after the World War when the Allies to gam Jewish support in Central is well as Allied countries, promised Zionists to give them political rights in Palestine...
Forensics on such political troubles have continued vigorously the whole past year. They are properly an activity of World Zionism. Chaim Weizmann president of the World Zionist organization must handle them. Although they were to come before the U. S. Zionists at Cleveland, those zealots were more concerned with economics, economic leadership...
...when he conciliated a strike of Jewish garment workers, the misery of many Jews first struck him strongly He read up-slowly as is his habit-on their problems, joined the Zionists in 1912. Two years later the World War threatened to disrupt the work of International Zionism. He took command and put his economic principles to work in Palestine. The War situation of Zionism was a crisis. Justice Brandeis considered it an Ivry and was proud to boast, as he (erroneously) remembered King Henry IV (Henry of Navarre) had boasted to his Captain Crillon...
...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...