History of Zionism, 1600-1918, Vol. 2 (of 2)Sokolow, Nahum
History
History of Zionism, 1600-1918, Vol. 2 (of 2)
Sokolow, Nahum
Jews -- Restoration; Zionism -- History
There it ends! Shakespeare himself could use no more than the
commonplace to express what is incapable of expression. “The rest is
silence!”
We say: “The rest is immortality――in the annals of Zionism.”
PARIS, _April, 1919_.
CHAPTER XLIXA.
_Chovevé Zion_ and Zionists in England――Louis Loewe――Nathan
Marcus Adler――Albert Löwy――Abraham Benisch――The Rev. M. J.
Raphall――Dr. M. Gaster――Rabbi Samuel Mohilewer――English
representation at the Second and Third Congresses――The Fourth
Congress in London.
THE _Chovevé Zion_ movement in England was not very powerful, yet it
enjoyed a certain amount of popularity. If we examine, for instance,
the records for 1892‒7――the years which preceded the First Zionist
Congress (Basle, 1897)――we find among the leading representatives not
only the Chief Rabbi of the Spanish and Portuguese Communities, Dr. M.
Gaster, Mr. Herbert Bentwich, Rabbi Professor H. Gollancz, the late
Colonel Albert Goldsmid, Dr. S. A. Hirsch, Mr. S. B. Rubenstein, Mr.
E. W. Rabbinowicz and other English Jews of standing, who are even now
more or less active in the Zionist Organization; but we read the names
of the late Chief Rabbi of Great Britain, Dr. H. Adler, the late Lord
Swaythling, Mr. Elkan Adler, Albert Jessel, Mr. Joseph Prag (who was
one of the most active members), Joseph Nathan, Louis Schloss, Haim
Guedalla, Captain H. Lewis-Barned, Bernard Birnbaum, Mr. Herman Landau
and other distinguished members of the community, as among those of the
prominent enthusiastic supporters of the _Chovevé Zion_ movement who
did not join the new Zionist Organization. The same phenomenon strikes
us in France. There the new Zionism was confronted on the part of the
_Chovevé Zion_ by an opposition that was even stronger than in England.
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