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Those Who Sow in Tears Will Reap the Harvest, official postcard of the Sixth Zionist Congress, Basel, 1903, with postmark.
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Emil Ranzenhofer
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Basel, Switzerland
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1903
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As Jews we hope: firstly, that Yiddish folk-literature, which the young Jewish generation has created for the Jewish people, will continue to grow, attract more talent, and attain the same level as…
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Chaim Zhitlowsky
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Bern, Switzerland
Date:
1898
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Brothers and sisters—all working poor
Wherever you might be scattered on earth
This banner’s now waiting for you, together.
Waving, wrathful, this flag is blood red.
We swear! We swear by the…
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S. An-ski
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Bern, Switzerland
Date:
1902
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In a country like Russia where various nations live mixed together, the responsibility of disseminating culture…
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The Bund
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Geneva, Switzerland
Date:
1905
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The purpose of the Jewish University is to offer Jewish youth the opportunity to obtain an education:A. In the general higher disciplines with special consideration given to the Wissenschaft des…
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Martin Buber, Chaim Weizmann, Bertold Feiwel
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Geneva, Switzerland
Date:
1902
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The aim of Zionism is to create for the Jewish people a home in Palestine secured by public law.The Congress contemplates the following means to the attainment of this end:
- The promotion, on suitable…
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The First Zionist Congress
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Basel, Switzerland
Date:
1897
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Ephraim Lilien’s photograph of Theodor Herzl, considered the father of modern political Zionism, depicts him staring off into the distance like a lonely prophet. The congress in Basel in 1901 was the…
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Ephraim Moses Lilien
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Basel, Switzerland
Date:
1901
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Everyone loved . . . it was a plague
of infatuation, of kisses;
But the people soon became quiet,
the mothers were already nursing.
The drum of youth was laid
in the corner, and the…
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Jacob Steinberg
Places:
Bern, Switzerland (Switzerland)
Lucerne, Switzerland (Switzerland)
Date:
1909