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October 02, 1959 - Image 51

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The Detroit Jewish News, 1959-10-02

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DR. MIRIAM K. FREUND

National President of Iladassah

In May, 1860, the month Abra-
ham Lincoln was nominated for
the Presidency of the United
States, a child was born in the
Austro-Hungarian City of Buda-
lest. That child, Theodor Herzl,
-vas destined to become the
father of modern Zionism,
whose obsession with the situa-
tion of his fellow Jews and
whose compulsive desire to
normalize their status was to
bring about the re-emergence of
Israel as a sovereign state. The
centennial of both events will
be marked in May, 1960.
Lincoln and Herzl assumed
the . responsibility . of . liber-
ating human beings from the
tyranny of bigotry and prej-
udice as their mission in life.
Neither survived to see the
fruits of his labor. Yet each
is enshrined in history and
revered today despite the fact
that during their lifetime
they were controversial fig-
ures.
Herzl was the first man since
Biblical times who became a
national Jewish hero. The Jews
chose Herzl because it was he
who reawakened in the
contemporary world Jewish
community a national conscions-
ness at a time when. the Jewish
people had sunk into the
depths of despair under the
degradation and opprobrium of

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their anti-Semitic oppressors.
The Jews accepted Herzl as a
guiding loadstar because he
gave new life to the ancient
hope within their breast and
gave concrete direction to their
craving for a return to Zion.
All through their long exile—
in their prayers, their books,
their writings—was expressed
their innermost spirit: "Next
Year in Jerusalem."
In the moment of Czarist
pogroms and the odious • anti-
Semitism which manifested
itself so acutely in the Dreyfus
Trial, the Jews needed the self-
confidence Herzl was able to
instill in them. The mantle of
Moses seemed to fall upon him
and he offered surcease to
Jewish sufferings and Jewish
longings through the centuries.
In his personality, through his
writings, in his "Judenstadt,"
he made it possible for Jews to
look forward to and to mobiliz-
efforts for a Jewish State in
the land promised by the Lord.
Although Lincoln and
Herzl both now "belong to
the ages," the issues they
fought for are as vital today
as when they were first
defined. Despite Israel's es-
tablishment as an indepen-
dent Jewish State, there is
still a need for the Herzlean
dream in our lives—a need
for bellying, as he did, that
Zionism has united the scat-

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To Our Jewish Friends and Patrons

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tered limbs of Jewry upon a
national basis and that it
means "the return to Judaism
even before the return to the
Jewish land." For he main-
tained that only by joining
forces in the perpetuation of
Jewishness in a Jewish home-
land could a Jewish nation
raise itself as an equal among
nations; the very existence of
a Jewish State would militate
the benefit of Jews where-
ever they may be.
Max Nordau, one of Herzl's
closest colleagues, has called
him "our Disraeli," who was
endowed with a "genius for
action." In the eight years prior
to his untimely death in 1904,
Herzl had risen from obscurity
in Jewish life to a position of
unchallenged leadership in the
cause of Jewish nationalism.
In that period, he founded the
World Zionist Organization and
instituted annual World Zion-
ist Congresses as a means of
providing self-expression to the
political aspirations of the Jews.
He organized the Jewish Colo.
nial Trust and the Anglo-
Palestine Company as the
financial instrument of the
Zionist Movement. Not only did
he define the philosophy of
Political Zionism, he pondered
and formulated every detail of
a magnificent plan for a future
Jewish Commonwealth.
As early as 1865, Herzl seems
to have been possessed of the
premonition that his time might
be running out. "Who knows
how soon it will be over?" he
wrote. He described his anxiety
in the words of Heine:
"I tremble

51 -- THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS — Frid ay, O ctober 2, 1959

Lincoln and Herd; Libertarians

Herzl was a Prophet and yet
Best Wishes for a Happy New Year
a man of action. The Herzl I
that reaches deepest into our
hearts and minds is Herzl the
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that propelled him—and us—to
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de Hirsch, "the political life of
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an entire people—particularly
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when that people is scattered
throughout the entire world—
can be set in motion only with
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Happy New Year To Our Friends and Patrons
We have seen the advent of the
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has been achieved. But Herzl
saw more as the role of Jewry
in the world.
Best Wishes for a Happy New Year
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In addressing the third Zion-
To All Our Friends and Patrons
ist
Congress,
he
declared:
"The
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Wish Their Relatives and Friends
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so we out of our sorrows will
bring forth advancement for the
humanity which we serve."
This is the utterance of a
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in the necessity of that "new
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And if this be dreaming, then
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