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ARTHUR RUPPIN
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His Life eActivities Re-viewed
Faith
BY HELENE HANNA COHEN.
(The following article is reprinted epoch-making book, "The Jews of
from the German Monthly "Der Today," in which he indicated that
Jud," edited by Dr. Martin Beber.) the Zinuist demand alone could pre-
vent the disappearance of Judaism.
There are two methods by which Ile had indeed published in his
the individual may attain to leader- periodical, "Zeitschrift fur Demo-
ship of the masses. Ile may develop graphi and Statistik der Juden,"
the people's will so that they tear many valuable articles which
themselves away from existing cir- strengthened the scientific basis of
cumstances in order to take up a Zionism. But never had he at-
new standpoint, or he may combine tempted to give the Zionist theory
the vacilating tendencies of the any spiritual elements of his own.
masses, co-ordinate them and make Ile could not be regarded as the
creator of new ideas but first and
them effective.
foremost as an analytical scientist.
The first kind of man is the revo-
That this is the case can be seen in
lutionary. Ile has compared the ex-
the style of his book, which is clear,
isting spirit or the existing order of
sober but convincing in his practi-
society with another, which is his
cability. That was all which the
ideal, recognizing the existing cir-
Jewish public knew of him. Those
cumstances as unreasonable or un
in the
Present
and Future
= seemly. Ile holds before the masses that he possessed great business ebil-
the vision of his goal, and his anger ity which in his earlier years had
= and pain with existing circumstances. made him one of the leading men in
i a
= He
warns the people to forsake the large business concern. They also
= path which they are treading in or- knew that he was a clever, energetic
= der to enter upon another path. The man, with a clear grasp of facts.
= instrument with which he works upon His character and qualifications
= the masses is the spoken or written had never had an opportunity so far
Optimism is the crying need
of the hour. We must realize
that readjustment of industrial,
economic and mercantile con-
ditions is inevitable and but a
matter time and we can hasten
the desired normalcy in our
economic life by bearing with
the present and maintaining a
strong faith in all things.
word; his personality finds expres- for work in wider circles. His friends
= skin in written or spoken languages. alone knew that he had torn himself
= character which admits of no half-. also lifted the fate of his race into
= way house, the Jew regards the ex-
a new plane.
isting world as remote from his ideal
Other qualities speedily appeared,
= and is therefore prepared to destroy a modesty which rTadily recognises
— in order to build up a new world the credit due to others, an absolute
= upon its ruins. The power of his lack of vanity and a sympathetic
= hatred against existing conditions, bonhomie which at first sight one
= the strength of his love for his ideal, cannot say whether it rests solely on
= gives him the language with which mere good nature or upon true love
= he draws the masses to the new of
mankind. Besides an unusual
= standpoint. He is the prophet, whose practicability which makes him ready
= task is ended at that moment when immediately to give up his own
= his prophetic dream is fulfilled, or standpoint and accommodate himself
= when it breaks aainst the
reality of to the views of other people. The
things.
typical Jewish racial characteristics
The Organising Class.
do not lie on the surface with him.
The second kind of man is the or- This lack of strong temperamental
= ganizer. His task only commences characteristics makes his West Eu-
= when the masses have already ropean side much more obvious than
E. reached the new standpoint and de- the Jewish one.
= sire to establish themselves there. It
Taken all round, Ruppin is an ex-
= is his task to lead mankind along the ceptionally qualified man for man-
a l pith whiCh corresponds to his ideal.
mdited executing
xeccutingag reaAtan
nd adt
= Ile must grasp and co-ordinate all complicated
of work.
= the elements which he finds in the that moment of the development of
masses. At each moment he must Zionist history, such a piece of work
= look reality in the face and seek to was in the view of the Zionist lead-
= deal with it in such a wise as his ers, the chief function of the Pales-
= ideal required. 'However ardently tine Office.
= his heart longs for the ideal, he must
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f Jewry.
keep a cool head so that he does not Thus Ruppin took up his task as
= lose contact with contemporar' a standard bearer of
Jewry and a
= events. The instrument which he leader of the masses. Thus com-
P. uses for moving the masses is rea- menced an unwritten page. He went
= son, although the motive power , not indeed in the conviction that his
which sets reason into activity is the life's work lay solely in the creation.
= spirit. His expression is not words, of the new Jewish Commonwealth,
= but acts.
not only because Europe did not
=
Nearly all the attributes which satisfy the longing for a new world,
=, qualify the mass organizer for his not because of any adventurous im-
= position are related with the strong el se toward
experien ce,
sense of reality, the experience of Eut be
he felt within himself
the
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Gained People's Trust.
By the manner in which he regu-
lates his own life, Ruppin demon-
strates that his social outlook is a
serious one and that it was that
which gained for him the trust of
all kinds of people. Both his time
and his energy he feels he must place
at the dispose I of mankind. He
did not permit himself to be re-
stricted in his work to any percept.
ible extent by the herd blows of for-
tune which came to him while in
Palestine. All sides of his life which
may threaten to complicate things,
he puts on one side. Ile does not
tolerate the domination of the tragic
in his life.
It was this avoidance of the tragic
which made him so unexceptionally
qualified for dealing with people in
Palestine. Ile was the only one in
the country in whom all circles and
parties had confidence. Circles who
looked upon themselves as the aris-
tocracy of the country and who felt
themselves possessed of Jewish cul-
ture were willing to abide by his ver-
dict. Workmen who had previously
regarded with distrust every bour-
geois, placed their faith in his hands.
He knew always how to reconcile and
mediate between parties. here also
perhaps his aloofness from his neigh-
bors helped him. Just because he
need not himself feel all the prob.
!ems of human, and abode all of
Jewish life, for that reason he wa
s
able to give sound advice for the
regulation of people's lives. In ad.
dition, he possesses a distinctly
democratic outlook which bring him
into closer relations with the work.
ing class than with people of his own
position.
Ile helps everybody , set
but
feels no desire to penetrate into the
final depths of others' lives. He re.
juices in the manifoldness of life
and is contented with the g•mil ev
en
when accompanied with the evil,—
'as he does not take the world trag-
ically. Ile, who knows well enough
the right path for himself, is inter.
ested in observnig the paths of other
people without attempting to mould
them into his own form.
In him there are combined two die
tinct tendencies: Jewish imagine.
tem and German self-contrel. The
first fills him with burning iJealism,
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In a gruwniis degree the spiritual
tendencies of the country also be-
gan to come before him. At the be-
ginning he stood aside from the
spiritual struggles, which in many re-
spects seemed strange to him. But
he gradually accustomed himself to
see in these difficulties energising
powers for .Palestinian life which
might be of use in his plans. The
more he realized the seriousness of
these difficulties, the more he par-
ticipated in them without himself
joining either one party or the other.
In his own creations he became daily
more clear that he was on the side
of social justice we against egoistical
tendencies. Nevertheless, his tem-
perament was such as not to lead
him to interfere where oppssing ten-
dencies manifested themsleves.
= It is not to be wondered at that free, by his own efforts, from the
amongst the leaders of revolution, narrow round
of business life in or-
those who condemn the old and pre- der to enter the field of scientific and
= pare the new, there have always been social education, and that by this
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and should have relieved him. It
happened as the result of a great
sense of responsibility, but those who
were condemned to inactivity as •
consequence regarded its as pride on
his part.
The opportunity came to him to
enter into relations with numbers of
people. Daily his office and resi-
dence were crowded with persons
who came to him for advice and as-
sistance relating to the circumstances
of their lives. If in some parts of
the country something happened—a
fire, an Arab attack, a conflict be-
tween employers and workers, the
shipwreck of a life—then they turned
to him.
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e shown that the Jew is That this task presented itself to him
adapted for organizing the masses. in a Jewish and a Zionist fieldson ade
In the thousands of years of his life it all the more worth while,
that
amongst strangers he has never been he willingly renounced the great
able to prove his fitness for such a possibilities which doubtless awaited
task. While well able to agitate
the him in Europe in favor of a work
masses by prophetic visions, he has the value of which to the Jewish peo-
never been permitted to build up a pie did not then appear so hopeful.
new order. (We are too close to To a slight extent he felt the lure
recent and contemporary events to of the exotic; the strange country in
enable us to draw reliable conclu- which he sensed dangers and diffi.
sions from them.)
culties which his nature met half-
Even in the internal life of Jewry way rather than avoided.
since the Dispersal, there has never
In one respect a certain naivete
been room for the development of was exhibited in his acceptance of
mass organizers. The ramifications the post. Until his visit to Pelee-
of Diaspora Judaism were not called tine for study he had not been in
into existence by any inner
but close contact with Eastern Jews and
by an external will, and were never was practically unacquainted with
the result of the strivings of the their mentality. His nature, which
masses themselves for co-ordination. keeps him aloof from other persons,
Zionism—Internal Movement.
hindered him from seeing their de-
The first internal movement of cisive limitations and prevented him
the Jewish masses for a new spiritual from fully recognizing the difficulties
and material end is Zionism. of psychological problems.
The first phase of Zionism is the In Palestine he found a chaotic
revolutionizing of the Jewish masses. condition of things. The energies of
A large number of noteworthy per- the workmen spent themselves in far-
Isonalities appeared. All of them fetched ideas. The existing under-
possessed by an ideal which inspired takings were unprofitable. The coun-
them with speech to rouse the try was full of disillusioned people
masses. Constructive ability, the and at its gates there stood a large
power to translate this dream into army of other disillusioned who saw
all the details which constitute real- no possibility for their existence in
ity, was found in one only of them, Palestine. The general disorder • of
in Theodore Ilerzl. Fate, however, conditions was gnawing at the life
cut him off in the prime before he of the community.
could show that he possessed the
Arthur Ruppin commenced his du-
power of constructive work.
ties. His business abilities were soon
At the moment at which Zionism given their chance. Ile founded
was called upon to create a living commercial institutions and modified
image of its dream, the lack of con- others, according as circumstances
structive ability made itself felt. The required. Soon other tasks presented
commencing colonization of Palestine themselves. People in Palestine were
remained casual and sporadic. Good waiting for some place where they
detailed plans remained untried. Bad could obtain advice and assistance.
methods were in use, all because Now they came to the leader of the
there was no clear system. The need Palestine Office, and, in dealing with
was felt for the appearance of a these, some of whom were martyrs,
personality who would be wise Ruppin's human and Jewish feelings
enough to regulate the casual Sc- were deepened. lie learned to re-
carding to some system, tie slim- gard his post, not only as an admin.
inate that which was evil, and to istrator of institutions, but also as
bring into use that which was lying the arbiter of human destinies.
fallow. A personality who pos-
Supervised Many Activities.
sensed sufficient enthusiasm for the
The institutions which he had cre-
ideal to enable him to carry out his
ated
proved themsleves of great
tasks, although the basis was yet so
new that it might collapse at any value. In the case of others which
at the beginning had been con-
moment.
No one was• fo be seen in Jewish demned as unprofitable, it became
circles who had proved his organiz- clear later that from a higher stand-
ing talent in a new land and a new point than that of mere business,
commonwealth. Therefore one had they were of great importance to the
to attempt it with someone who had country. The more men and groups
first of all to develop his organizing that turned to them, the wider be-
powers. Finally the man in whom came the circle of their activities,
these organizing gifts were indicated and the higher were the demands
was found in Arthur Ruppin. The which they made on his many-sided
task handed over to Arthur Ruppin, understanding. He was obliged to
namely the establishment in Jaffa be conversant with all the fields of
of a l'alestine Office which was to activity of a small community. All
regulate the work of colonization, the strings were in his hands. The
marked the second phase of the ac- immigrants who reached the port of
tivity of the Zionist organization; Jaffa by every boat had to be dealt
from dream to realiy, from words to with in some manner suitable to each
deeds. It is notable that on the individual. The plans of experts
threshold of this development there were placed before him for exam-
stands a German Jew. With the ex- ination. Apart from those estab-
ception of Theodore Hersh all the lished by himself, he had to exercise
prominent personalities of the first control over the existing agricul-
phase of Zionism were Eastern Jews: tural, industrial and commercial in-
revolutionaries, visionaries, who were stitutions, to create new ones, to
able to invest their prophetic vision abolish old ones. He had to keep in
with burning words. Now for the view the possibility of favorable land
first time there appears a means to purchase, so as to be able to act at
take up the existing facts, and to the right moment. He supervised
fashion the ideal out of these facts. the attempts for the creation of fay-
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speak through deeds. ties in the land itself and controlled i
the propaganda directed upon the
Author of Famous Beek.
When Ruppin undertook the lead- Diaspora. From the supervision of
ership of the Palestine Office he was the laying out of • colony, down to
an unnown man in the Zionist move- the plan of a water pump; from the
ment; he had never taken direct part quantity of seed corn put aside for
in the propaganda of Zionism; had sowing up to the statutes of a tech•'
never taken part in the deepening lice! union, every technical detail
and extending of the movement. He ?aimed through his hands. He him-
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