tly,
if we agreed with the movement, we would get in line at once. Note in
especial the bibliography of the whole matter (Appendix 4).
"Zionism looks 'forward, not backward,' and the vast hope behind it is one
that will help the non-Jewish world as much as the children of Abraham.
May Israel yet have a Hebrew University in Jerusalem. They are right--these
idealists. Palestine 'is essentially the land of religious influences and
spiritual association,' and also of 'political and geographical
importance.' The problems in all this are fairly met and fully discussed
in this book, which Dr. H. Sacher edits.
"And how is the Gentile to approach the subject? With a perfectly open
mind on all its economic, historical and religious questions. If taken up
in this way the book grows on one; it presents wholly reasonable
aspirations which all right-minded people can endorse and will desire to
aid as far as practicable. To have a 'perfectly open mind' is to take up
the problems of these earnest people who discuss 'Zionism' as our friends,
our neighbors, our fellow-workers. Don't be 'tolerant' or patronizing
towards Jew or Gentile, American, European, Asiatic, African or Islander.
We are 'all of one blood.'
"One of the best of Californian novelists, who has enjoyed the book,
writes as follows:
" 'It is an excellent round-up and exposition of all the vagrant--and
vague--theories and history of the subject. It makes the evolution and
logical being of the question perfectly clear. Whereas in most Jewish
minds Zionism means a belief in Palestine as the native soil of all Jews
and the refuge for the oppressed, the motive here expressed is that by
drawing the Jewish soul to its ancient Fatherland, it will create a
spiritual center for all Jewry.' "--_Daily Fresno Republican._
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_An Exposition Of Principles And Methods Of Jewish Social Service In The
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a compilation of the different ideas expressed by the leaders of the
movements, as well as a presentation of the actual practical experience
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