Yavne and Jerusalem

Samuel Hugo Bergmann

1919

True Autonomy

We resist the penetration of capitalism and mercantilism into Palestine. How can we at this moment in history reconcile that with our conscience? Dare we burden this Zionist undertaking in addition to its thousand difficulties with the additional load of embodying a new economic order? And even if we dared—is the thing possible? Can…

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Samuel Hugo Bergmann

1883–1975

A member of the Prague circle of German Jewish intellectuals before World War I, Samuel Hugo Bergmann was strongly influenced by Martin Buber’s spiritual Zionism and neoromantic religious philosophy. He settled in Jerusalem in 1920, where he served first as director of the National and University Library and later as professor of philosophy and rector at the Hebrew University. In 1925 he founded, together with Buber, Brit Shalom, a group that advocated the creation of a binational state in the Land of Israel.

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