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 - 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- Happy New Year To All Roofing By ALEX RAMSEY CONST. CO . Happy New Year RADDEN'S ELECTRIC CO. 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TE 4-3445 13100 GAVEL 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 Dreamer. It was his dreams that propelled him—and us—to Specializing in Conveyor Parts action; it was in his dreams— Also Fabrication 19212 Ohio Avenue in the imponderables—that he WA 1-5575 6414 FARNSWORTH found substance. 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