Word: zionist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decision owed much to the powerful will of David Ben-Gurion, who, at 69, looks like an Old Testament patriarch with white hair foaming up from each side of his thrusting head. A Zionist and Socialist visionary, a prophet who packs a pistol, Ben-Gurion led the republic for its first six years until, frustrated by party niggling in his coalition, he retired to live in the pioneer settlement of Sde Boker on the southern desert. Eleven months ago he dramatically returned to politics on the eve of elections, hoping to win decisive control of Parliament but achieving only...
...owned trains do not run on the Sabbath, and the citizen who drives his private car through Orthodox districts on the holy day is apt to hear an outraged cry of "Sabbath" from the curb. Yet the prevailing spirit in Israel remains the old-fashioned buoyancy of 19th century Zionist Socialism, with all its emphasis on sentimental nationalism, Utopian pioneering of the land, and a generous belief in the nature of man. Israel's 300,000 elementary-school children attend either religious or "general" schools. In the one case they learn the Bible as God's Word...
Died. Ludwig Lewisohn, 72, German-born author (Upstream, Goethe: The Story of a Man), translator (works of Rilke, Werfel), Zionist, professor of comparative literature at Brandeis University since 1948; in Miami Beach...
...them. And this is especially refreshing at a time when so many otherwise well-intentioned and well-informed publications are cajoled or cowed into confusion on the Arab-Israel issue. So congratulations for your courageous reprinting of the little Jewish Newsletter's editorial exposing Zionist hysteria...
...reality. It wells from the hidden springs of a disillusioned people who were promised security and peace and find themselves in a war trap. The American-Jewish brand of hysteria is entirely without roots in the realities of American-Jewish life. It is completely artificial, manufactured by the Zionist leaders, and almost mechanically foisted on a people who have no cause for hysteria by an army of paid propagandists as a means of advancing a policy of avowed political pressure and of stimulating fund raising. Never before has a propaganda campaign in behalf of a foreign government been planned...