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(Xt) Syrkin, Nachman : IDISHER KONGRES IN AMERIKA

[New York] ; Aroysgegeben Fun Idish-Natsyonalen Arbayter Ferband Fun Amerika,, 1915

First edition. Original boards. 8vo. 536 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 27 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates to "Yiddish Congress in America. " Nachman Syrkin (18681924) was the first ideological leader of Socialist Zionism. Syrkin joined Hovevei Zion while a young man in Minsk. He was placed under arrest for several weeks, after which he went to London and then to Berlin (1888) , where he studied psychology and philosophy. In Berlin he was a founder of the Russian-Jewish Scientific Society, from whose ranks a number of Zionist leaders emerged. Syrkin participated in the First Zionist Congress in 1897, leading the few representatives of Socialist Zionism. In 1898, two years after the appearance of Herzl's "The Jewish State", he published an article in the Austrian Socialist monthly Deutsche Worte and enlarged it in the same year into a pamphlet "The Jewish Question and the Socialist Jewish State", in which he outlined for the first time the idea to which he adhered throughout his life: the realization of Zionism through cooperative mass settlement of the Jewish proletariat. In the press, as well as from the rostrum of the Zionist Congresses, Syrkin forcefully attacked the preponderance of "bourgeois and clerical" elements in the Zionist Organization, as well as Herzl's diplomatic overtures to "reactionary monarchs" (William II) and "tyrants" (Nicholas II) . His speeches often caused loud protests and even scandals in the Congress sessions" (EJ, 2007) . SUBJECTS: Jews -- United States. Jews. OCLC lists only 6 copies worldwide, with powerhouses such as Penn and Yale lacking copies. Ex-library no markings. Light soiling to wrapper with a two very small chips on bottom corners. Overall Very Good Condition. (YID-27-35)

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