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Lot #    18233
Auction End Date    6/12/2007 11:57:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Unser Program
Author    [Zionism] Menahem Mendel Ussishkin
City    Vienna
Publisher    Zion
Publication Date    1905?
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    First edition. 31 pp., 226:142 mm., wide margins, light age staining, margin worming. A good copy bound in the original boards, rubbed.
          
Detailed
Description		    Zionism by Abraham Menahem Mendel Ussishkin (1863–1941), Zionist leader, member of Hovevei Zion, and the president of the Jewish National Fund (JNF). Born in Dubrovno in the district of Mogilev, Russia, Ussishkin moved to Moscow with his family in 1871. From 1878 he became an enthusiastic reader of the works of contemporary Hebrew writers, and from then the revival of the Hebrew language became one of his guiding principles. The 1881 pogroms shocked Russian Jewry and led to the emergence of the Bilu movement. At a meeting of Jewish students at Moscow University, Ussishkin and his friend Jehiel Tschlenow founded a Society of Pioneers to Erez Israel. In 1882 he entered the Technological Institute in Moscow, where he immediately founded a Jewish students' society. In August 1884 the Benei Zion society, which nurtured many Zionist leaders, was founded in Moscow. Ussishkin was elected to the society's committee and in 1885 was chosen secretary of all the Hovevei Zion groups in Moscow. From 1887 on he published reports and articles in Ha-Meliz. Together with M. L. Lilienblum, he was elected secretary of the Druzkieniki Conference (1887). A clash took place at the conference between the Orthodox faction of Samuel Mohilewer and Leon Pinsker's liberal Hovevei Zion faction, but Ussishkin managed to bring about a reconciliation. The practical proposals made by him at the conference were early signs of his Zionist pragmatism. He viewed agricultural settlement in Erez Israel as the essence of the whole.
          
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Other:    Austria
  
Subject
Other:    Zionism
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    German
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica