This collection of essays provides readers with an introduction to Zionism, a political movement that sought to establish a Jewish state in Palestine. The essays cover a range of topics, including the history of Zionism, its cultural roots, and its political implications. This is an important work for anyone interested in Jewish history or Middle Eastern politics. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE FORERUNNERS OF ZIONISM. by Lotta Levensohn Zionism is very young, as time is reckoned in great movements. Despite its youth, Zionism has roots deeply imbedded in the historic beginnings of Jewish life and thought. What is now known as the Zionist movement came into being in 1897, when Theodore Herzl published his Judenstaat (Jewish State). Essentially, however, Zionism is an outgrowth of the Messianic ideal, which is an integral part of the national consciousness of the Jewish people. Through long centuries of persecution, the Jewish people was sustained by its invincible faith in a God-sent deliverer to lead the return to Palestine. The hope of the coming of the Messiah, as much as any other factor, has saved the Jewish people alive to this day. THE PROPHETS. The Messiah and the Messianic era loom large in the books of the Prophets of Israel. The Prophets foretold an heroic deliverer, the model of the righteous king and judge, to spring from the line of David, and appear at the end of days. The Prophetic descriptions of the Messianic era are instinct with faith in the potentialities of human nature when it reaches out toward God. Then, oppression and warfare shall no more be known, and all the peoples will come to worship in the mount of the Lord. Jewish religious thought is unique in its insistence that the Golden Age of humanity does not lie in the past, but in the future. For the full divinity of mankind is still to be unfolded. The whole Jewish people, from generation to generation, is consecrated to ideal aims that require the participation of every Jew?that is the burden of the teaching of the Prophets and the sages of Israel. The Jewish people stands for ideals of democracy, of just dealing between man and man, of righteousness between nation and na...

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Excerpt from A Zionist Primer This volume published by Young Judaea attempts to make clear to the Jewish. Youth the Jewish problem and the solution as formulated in the Zionist program. Young Judaea is an organization of young men and young women who are awakened to the needs of our people and who desire to equip themselves for effective service in the training of our youth. We feel the menace of a generation growing up in ignorance of its history, traditions and national ideals. Education in the schools of America can teach the new generation only the beau ties of other cultures, and the heroisms of other nations. The Bible has become a sealed book, or one to be read in the light of an interpretation dominated by alien thought; and the heroic figures of our own history, our national revival and the Hebrew renaissance are almost entirely unknown. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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