Word: zionism
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...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...
Stephen S. Wise, rabbi snubbed by European Zionists: "I come back a disillusioned and dispirited man after I looked upon the darkest hour of the Jewish nation in many generations. There is no Zionism. It is dead. I thought I was leaving the land in which Zionism was misunderstood and that I would find kindred spirits in Europe...
...Woodrow Wilson was called to mind as a prophet of Zionism. The Congress rose, bowed its head, to honor...