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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle

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27 1940 1r

VIENNA: THE CRADLE OF ZIONISM

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Repeatedly some American members were chosen to repre-
Zionists have expressed their sent Austria even at the Olym-
opinion that there was practic- pic games. A few years later,
ally no Zionism in Vienna, the a chess section and an orchestra
capital of Austria, at least until section were founded, the latter
Hitler annexed this country. I a full-fledged orchestra under
can think of no statement more the leadership of the capable
erroneous and unjust than this. conductor S. Braslawsky. The
Of all cities on earth, Vienna Hakoah has not only done very
deserves the title "Cradle of much for the physical training
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of the Jewish youth, but (level•
Zionism".
oped
Jewish
sportsmanship
and
Theodor Herzl, the founder of
Opp. Riviera Theater
modern political Zionism, though self-consciousness and became a
kind
of
Jewish
social
center.
The
born in Budapest, lived and
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worked in Vienna. Except for Hakoah was dissolved soon after
his "Judenstaat," which originat- the annexation of Austria by
ed in Paris under the impres- Hitler.
Due to a decreasing birthrate
sion of the famous Dreyfus Af-
fair, all his works were written and increasing emigration—most-
in Vienna. There, in the Doeb- ly to Palestine—the Jewish pop-
linger cemetery, he found his ulation in Austria decreased
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last resting place. Each return years before the Nazi occupa-
of his day of death, in July, a tion. In 1923, 220,208 Jews
crowd of tens of thousands lived in Austria, 201,313 of them
passed silently by his grave, to in Vienna, representing 9.39 per
honor the man who has sacri- cent of the whole Viennese pop-
OPTOMETRIST
ficed himself for the ause of his ulation. In 1934 the Jewish pop-
ulation in Austria amounted to Eyes Examined
Glasses Fitted
people.
Having later made the ac- 191,481 (or a total of 6,760,000
quaintance of Polish Jewry and inhabitants), in Vienna to 176,-
eastern Jewish life, Dr. Herzl 034, representing 9.39 per cent
found his first and most ardent of the entire population of
DENTIST
followers in Vienna in partic- 1,874,000. In the end of 1937
ular among the students of the the Jewish population of Vienna
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University and the technical col- had decreased to 166,000, or 8.8
leges. Soon a keen Zionist ac- per cent of the entire Viennese
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tivity sprang up there. As first ,population.
After elimination of an obso-
Zionist organization of this kind
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the students' association "Kadi- lete electoral system—favoring
mah" was founded which took the great taxpayers for the Jew-
pride in choosing Dr. Herzl as ish community, i.e., the richer
honorary member. Then fol- people—and substitution by •
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lowed the "Maccabaea", "Zeph- democratic system, the Zionists
ira" and several others. These had a majority of two-thirds in
student clubs were, to some ex- the Kultusrat, the governing
tent, an imitation of the Ger- council of the Juedische Kultus-
man students clubs ("Burschen- gemeinde (Jewish community) of
schaften"). They wore colored Vienna. The presidency and all
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ity
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Zionists.
They
fencing and fought duels mostly
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against the members of the Ger- represented the Jewish popula-
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other hand, however, they were to the authorities of state and
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impregnated with Zionist en- city. One of the first actions of
thusiasm and developed an ad- the Zionist majority was the ap-
mirable Zionist fighting spirit pointment of Prof. Perez Zwi
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both physical and psychical. They Chajes, world famous Jewish
rendered service to the Zionist scholar and Zionist leader, to
cause during the first decade of the important office of Chief
this century and made Zionism Rabbi of Vienna. It was the first
and the Jewish name respected time that a Zionist was appoint-
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among their enemies and the ed as supervisor of the 22 larger
non-Jewish population. Here is and more than 80 smaller syna-
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the Jewish students ridiculous a larger temples and of the entire
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Navarini, a famous fencer, chal- system in Vienna. Under his ex-
celent
guidance
and
leadership—
lenged all Zionist students he
saw in the University building. brought to an all-too-early end
In one of the following duels he by Dr. Chajes' sudden death due
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was so thoroughly defeated by to overwork—the Jewish com-
a Zionist student named Otto munity of Vienna became a
Almoslino that the Zionist stu- strong Zionist community, until
dents were respected as good all Jewish and Zionist life in
fighters and fencers even by Austria and Vienna, the very
cradle of Zionism, was destroyed
their adversaries ever since.
It was by these student asso- by the Nazi invasion.
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the line of discussion clubs—
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that the Jewish youth in Aus-
tria was educated and led back
The Bnai David Sisterhood held
from the desert of asimilation
towards Zionism. Out of these an open meeting on Monday eve-
Viennese students groups plenty ning, Dec. 16. The Sisterhood
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of talented young people, cham- members will be hostesses to their
pions of Zionism, sprang up mothers and to the Ladies Auxil-
One of them, the poet Hugo iary of the Bnai David Syna- Lafayette Waste Paper Co.
Zuckermann, the author • of the
on Monday evening, Dec.
famous "Reiterlied" (rider's gogue
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song), as a lieutenant in an 30, with a Chanukah party. An
Austrian dragoon regiment, fell interesting program has been ar-
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at the beginning of the World ranged for that evening. The
War, like so many others, seal- annual victory party will be held
ing his loyalty to his Austrian in January at the Wilshire Hotel.
fatherland with his life.
All these Zionist activities
were restricted, however, to the
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so-called academic circles, the
more educated people.
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