Toward an Explanation of Our Ideology

Samuel Chaim Landau

1924

[Introduction]

Jewry, and religious Jewry in particular, has always attached prime importance to the rebuilding of Eretz Israel. The Hovevei Zion regarded it as a national duty; for the religious it was a divine commandment as well, one equal in importance to all the other precepts of the Torah. In the religious view it was, therefore, an ultimate…

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Samuel Chaim Landau

1892–1928

Born into a Polish Hasidic environment, Samuel Chaim Landau became a religious Zionist after World War I (when he was taken hostage by the Germans) while maintaining Hasidic observance. He had a leadership role with the Mizrachi organization in Poland and later in Palestine, and he organized Zionist youth movements. Writing in Hebrew, he published articles on the interrelationship of the Torah, labor, and nationalism. He moved to the Land of Israel in 1926, where he died at age thirty-six.

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