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Title: Zionism and Anti-Semitism
Zionism by Nordau; and Anti-Semitism by Gottheil

Author: Max Simon Nordau
Gustav Gottheil

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ZIONISM

_and_

ANTI-SEMITISM

_Zionism_

AND

_Anti-Semitism_

BY

MAX NORDAU

AND

GUSTAV GOTTHEIL

NEW YORK
FOX, DUFFIELD & COMPANY
1905

_Copyright 1902_
_FREDERICK A. RICHARDSON_

_Copyright 1903_
_SCOTT-THAW COMPANY_

_Copyright 1905_
_By FOX, DUFFIELD & COMPANY_

CONTENTS

PAGE

ZIONISM. _By Max Nordau_ 9

ANTI-SEMITISM IN EUROPE _By Gustav Gottheil._ 47

ZIONISM

BY

MAX NORDAU

ZIONISM

Among the persons of the educated classes who follow with any
attention all the more important movements of the times, it would now
be difficult to find one to whom the word "Zionism" is quite unknown.
People are generally aware that it describes an idea and a movement
that in the last years has found numerous adherents among the Jews of
all countries, but especially among those of the East. Comparatively
few, however, both among the Gentiles and the Jews themselves, have a
perfectly clear notion of the aims and ways of Zionism; the Gentiles,
because they do not care sufficiently for Jewish affairs to take the
trouble to inform themselves at first hand as to the particulars; the
Jews, because they are intentionally led astray by the enemies of
Zionism, by lies and calumnies, or because even among the fervent
Zionists there are not many who have probed the whole Zionist idea to
the bottom, and are willing or able to present it in a clear and
comprehensible fash