Powers of Descent and Powers of Ascent

Oskar Yeshayahu Wolfsberg

1939

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[ . . . ] Why does the present Jewish fate appear so strongly connected to our entire past and to all that is currently unfolding before our eyes? At times it seemed that many distinct events stood almost isolated, and, moreover, that it was extremely difficult to connect them to other events, horizontally or vertically [over space or time]. Yet…

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Oskar Yeshayahu Wolfsberg

1893–1957

Oscar Yeshayahu Wolfsberg (Volfsberg; also Aviad) was a leader of religious Zionism, a writer who explored the history of philosophy, and a physician. He was born in Hamburg, served in World War I, and moved to Palestine in 1933. Active in the Mizrahi movement in both his native Germany (where he served as the organization’s president and edited its journal) and in Israel (where he joined Ha-Po‘el ha-Mizrahi), Wolfsberg represented the state of Israel as a diplomat in Scandinavia and Switzerland.

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