Word: zionists
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...Zionists & Mystics. Buber was born in Vienna, but grew up, after his parents' divorce, in the home of his grandfather in Austrian Galicia. Devoutly observant as a child, Buber gave up Jewish religious practice at the age of 13, and came strongly under the influence of German idealism and phenomenology as a student of philosophy at Vienna University. Buber was an active Zionist, and for several years he worked closely with Theodor Herzl and Chaim Weizmann. But at the same time he was deeply influenced by Dostoevsky and Kierkegaard, and some of his first writings were on the German...
...Orthodox rabbis as a heretic. Some Reform Jews, on the other hand, feel that Buber has romanticized the Hasidic movement and overemphasized the importance of this unique sect for modern Judaism. And even among Jews who accept the principles of his "life of dialogue," some are shocked that onetime Zionist Buber has spent more than 40 years working for the improvement of Arab-Israel relations...
...tremendous ovations from street crowds in Damascus and Baghdad. In lordly style, he urged the Baathist leaders of Syria and Iraq to disperse the "summer cloud" of their differences with Egypt's Nasser, and grandly offered the virtually nonexistent Yemen republican army as an ally in repulsing "Zionist and imperialist aggressors...
Died. Louis Lipsky, 86, vibrant theoretician of U.S. Zionism during its first 60 years, who, after winning acceptance from American Jews-and President Woodrow Wilson-for the idea of a Jewish state, became president of the Zionist Organization of America from 1921 to 1930, and later helped organize financial support for the struggle against the British and Arabs; after a long illness; in Manhattan...
Died. Izhak Ben-Zvi, 78, second President of Israel, an ascetic, self-effacing Russian Jew who settled in Palestine in 1907 and helped form Has homer (The Guard), tiny predecessor of the pre-independence Zionist armies, was banished by Turkish authorities in 1915 with David Ben-Gurion, but returned in 1918 as a private in the invading British army's Jewish legion to continue his agitation for a Jewish state, and in 1952 accepted the largely ceremonial office of President, following Chaim Weizmann's death; of cancer; in Jerusalem...