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To the Jewish People: The second of November, 1917, is an important milestone on the road to our national future; it marks the end of an epoch, and it opens out the beginning of a new era. The Jewish…
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WZO London Bureau
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London, United Kingdom
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1917
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What more can I add? Will I tell my readers about the disreputable attributes that prevail among those coming from exile, about gratuitous hatred, discord, vain squabbles over a place in the synagogue…
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Ahad Ha-Am
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1891
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Jerusalem, our holy city, our soul’s yearning and the joy of our hope! Beautiful landscape, the joy of the entire land, if not the city of a great king (Psalm 48:1) . . . Now we cannot know how it was…
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Elhanan Leib Levinsky
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Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
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1892
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The idea which I have developed in this pamphlet is a very old one: the restoration of The Jewish State.
The world resounds with outcries against the Jews, and these outcries have awakened the…
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Theodor Herzl
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Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Vienna, Austria)
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1896
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Jewish nationalism is a product of the nationalist current engulfing all of humanity; it is an echo, a reflection, and an imitation of a movement occurring in a broader theater. Various nations are…
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Naḥum Sokolow
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Russian Empire (Poland, Poland)
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1897
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A future Jewish state founded on capitalism is impossible for technological reasons, as well. Within the limits of petty capitalism, it is not possible to mechanize agriculture and to create large…
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Nachman Syrkin
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Berlin, Germany
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1898
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Tiberias, March 7, 1909To the Very Honorable Miss Szold,I am certain that you will be surprised that after a year and a half of silence I am suddenly taking up our correspondence with this long letter…
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Manya Wilbushewitz Shoḥat
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Tiberias, Ottoman Palestine (Tabarīya, Israel)
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1909
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To the Committee of the Zionist Organization in Berlin
Salonica, January 3, 1913
Mr. President,
The question of Macedonia was addressed in London and will soon be resolved. What will be done with…
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David Florentin
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Salonica, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)
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1913
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In its initial stage, Zionism was conceived by its pioneers as a movement wholly depending on mechanical factors: there is a country which happens to be called Palestine, a country without a people…
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Chaim Weizmann
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Paris, France
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1914
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[ . . . ] Got together with Werner this afternoon; he wants me to become active in the [Social Democratic] party. Had a discussion about historical materialism that was quite interesting to me. [ . .…
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Gershom Scholem
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Berlin, Germany
Date:
1915