Ifornia, Second St Pamphlets: Second Series, Simon, ID Leon Simon, ad the Landman, No-Ifs, the Spiritua Revival (Classic Reprint)

The Spiritual Revival (1902) IT is not a mere accident that the question of Jewish culture has come to the front with the rise of political Zionism. Zionism unqualified by any epithet existed before, but it knew nothing of any problem of culture. It knew only its own plain and simple aim :that of placing the Hebrew nationality in new conditions, which should give it the possibility of developing all the various sides of its individuality. This being the aim of the earlier Zionists, the first article in their programme was naturally the creation of a fixed, independent centre for our nationality in our ancestral land. But at the same time they kept a watchful eye on every side of the life of the Hebrew nationality as it exists at present, and used every suitable means of strengthening it and promoting its development. A society of Zionists in Warsaw, for instance, was engaged at one and the same time in founding a colony in Palestine, a school of the modern type in Warsaw, and an association for the diffusion of Hebrew literature. That is to say, these men thought it their duty to combine political with cultural work; and all this in the name of Zionism (or Chibbath Zion, as it was then called). Nobody challenged this combination ;nobody raised the question whether this cultural work was right or wrong, obligatory or permissible. It was understood on all sides that the conception of Zionism [T his essay was originally an address delivered before the general meeting of Russian Zionists atM insk, in the summer of 1902. Only a part of it, that part which deals with the question of Jewish culture in its broader aspects, is here translated. The omitted portion is not of any considerable length.
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