Zionism

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Jewish publication society of America, 1914 - Jews - 258 pages
 

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Page 33 - The sons of Judah have to choose, that God may again choose them. The Messianic time is the time when Israel shall will the planting of the national ensign. . . . Let us help to will our own better future and the better future of the
Page 33 - Let us help to will our own better future and the better future of the world—not renounce our higher gift, and say, " Let us be as if we were not among the populations," but choose our full heritage, claim the brotherhood of our nation, and carry it into a new brotherhood with the nations of the Gentiles. The vision is there: it will be fulfilled.
Page 127 - delegates from all the lands of the Exile who still cry, ' If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, may my right hand forget its cunning.'
Page 124 - The establishment of a legally-secured, publicly-recognized home for the Jewish people in Palestine," and it rejects, either as an end or as a means of colonizing, activity outside Palestine and its adjacent lands. The Congress resolves to thank the British Government for its offer of a territory in British East Africa,
Page 33 - There is still a great function for the steadfastness of the Jew: not that he should shut out the utmost illumination which knowledge can throw on his national history, but that he should
Page 173 - Does this mean that Judaism should nurse dreams of ambition, and think of realizing one day that " invisible church of the future," invoked by some in prayer? This would be an illusion, whether on the part of a narrow sectarian or on that of an enlightened individual.
Page 173 - who made the Bible shall have disappeared—the race and the cult—though leaving no visible trace of its passage upon earth, its imprint will remain in the depth of the heart of generations, who will, unconsciously perhaps, live upon what has
Page 28 - You ask me what I wish: my answer is, the Land of Promise. You ask me what I wish: my answer is, Jerusalem. You ask me what I wish: my answer is, the Temple, all we have forfeited, all we have yearned after, all for which we have fought, our beauteous country, our holy creed, our simple manners, and our ancient customs." " An Englishman, Hollingsworth by name,
Page 115 - The territory has to be sufficiently extensive to admit of an immigration of such a character as should be eventually a material relief to the pressure which to-day exists in Eastern Jewry. 2. It follows that the territory has to be one colonizable by such
Page 34 - And Mordecai's views of the resumption of the soil of the Holy Land by the holy people are the only logical position of a Jew who desires that the long travail of the ages shall not end in the total disappearance of the race.

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