Physicians in the Zionist Movement
BY OR. S. J. PLASHKES
The medical profession has
always been well represented
among the leaders of the Zion-
ist Movement.
Dr. Leon Pinsker, the fore-
runner of political Zionism, had
become acquainted with the
tragic position of his people as
a young doctor practicing in the
Jewish quarter of his home
town of Odessa. In his famous
"Auot-Emancipation" he calls
anti-Semitism a real malady that
could be cured by the exodus
of the Jewish masses from their
countries of residence and their
Kort-Rosen
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MISS BARBARA KORT
At a recent dinner party,
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Kort of
Washburn Ave. announced the
engagement of their daughter,
Barbara Ilene, to Richard A.
Rosen, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Henry J. Rosen of Appoline
Ave.
A June 7 wedding is planned.
Mizrachi Women Announce
Location for Kennedy
Library in Jerusalem
The Mizrachi Women's Organ-
ization of America will establish
a John F. Kennedy Memorial Li-
brary in Jerusalem. It will be
located in the Bakka Settlement
Houses which serve a large un-
derprivileged population stem-
ming mainly from North African
and Near Eastern countries, it
was announced by Mrs. Eli Res-
nikoff, national president of the
women's religious-Zionist or-
ganization.
The library will include sec-
tions on American history, gov-
ernment and literature; world
politics and current events; ed-
ucation; Jewish history and re-
ligion; world politics and cur-
rent events; education; Jewish
history and religion, and He-
brew language and literature.
Vocation texts for youth and
adult informal education will
meet special needs of the Bakka
community.
Every craftsman hates the
man of his own craft.—Bere-
shith Rabbah 19.
The crippled man without train-
ing carries a heavy load at all
times. He can't without straining
to the last drop of blood handle
his work load and the playful
mind-reader.
The same man with the "Golden
Power" developed will receive a
warning, then dump the loaded
wheel-barrow to the side when
the boy arrives and be able to
entertain him as a boy should be.
This newly found power will
circle then engulf the criminal.
Now you will be in position to
analyze his unfinished lines and
take his ideas and use them as
your own. In the meantime the
reader will not know what you
are doing.
This power is used only in self-
defense .. To protect your
newly developed ideas . . • To
develop a fuller life.
How to find, develope, and use
this "Golden Power" is all writ-
ten in the manuscrip, "LAWS
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'if required.
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transfer to a country where they
could live and develop in free-
dom.
The first Zionist Congress
was attended by eight physic-
ians and three medical stu-
dents, among them such out-
standing figures as Dr. Kar-
pel Nathan Lippe who, as the
oldest of the delegates, pre-
sided over the Congress and
made an inspiring opening
speech.
Dr. Max Nordau was vice-
president of the Congress and
undoubtedly its most brilliant
orator.
The closing address at the
Congress was delivered by Dr.
Max Emanuel Mandelstamm.
Among the 21 members of
the first Zionist General Coun-
cil there were no fewer than
seven physicians, namely, apart
from the aforementioned, Doc-
tors Schnierer, Bernstein-Cohen,
Schalit (as secretary) and Sieg-
mund Kornfeld. Later, more
physicians rose to Zionist lead-
ership, such as Marmorek and
Tchlenow.
Schalit, although the young-
est among them, belonged to
Herzl's inner circle. The tenth
anniversary of his death was
marked only recently. Born in
Galicia in 1871, Isidor Schalit
was brought to Vienna as a
child. In 1889 he joined the
"Kadimah" and there he be-
came acquainted with the na-
tional aspirations of Eastern
European Jews and the aims of
the Hoveve Zion. In 1891 he
transformed the Kadimah into
a "duelling corporation" and in
countless duels succeeded in ex-
ploding the calumnious myth of
Jewish cowardice.
On seeing the manuscript of
Herzl's "Judenstaat," Schalit
grew so enthusiastic that he
rushed to Herzl and implored
him to take over the leader-
ship of the Hovevei Zion
movement because his pro-
posals were in complete ac-
cord with their activities and
plans. Herzl was reluctant,
but after Schalit and his
friends in "Kadimah" had col-
lected thousands of signa-
tures, he acceded.
Schalit's enthusiasm and en-
ergy knew no bounds. In his
diaries Herzl mentions that
Schalit at one time had pro-
posed gathering some 1000-2000
students for the conquest of
Jaffa, in order to emphasize and
enforce the Jewish claim to Pal-
estine. Herzl rejected this "Gar-
ibaldi-plan," but some time la-
ter he accepted a similar
scheme of Schalit's. After the
outbreak of the Turkish-Greek
war in 1897, Schalit suggested
sending a medical mission to
the Turks to gain their sympa-
thies for the Zionist cause. In-
deed, after very short prepara-
tion and with scanty equipment,
Schalit set out for the Ottoman
Army with his colleagues, Doc-
tors Donreich, Metal, Schwarz
and Stern. When the short cam-
paign ended Schalit went to Ba-
sel to organize the first Zion-
ist Congress. At a later stage,
Schalit served as secretary of
the Zionist Executive.
The most famous among
the physician-leaders of the
movement was Max Nordau
(1849-1923). His biography and
Zionist achievements are too
well known to require reca-
pitulation.
Dr. Maurice Tobias Schnierer
played an important part in the
early years of the Zionist Move-
ment. Born in Bucharest, he was
among the founders of "Kadi-
mah." He also set up "Zion,"
the first Zionist Association in
Vienna, which was to become a
nucleus of the Zionist Organiza-
tion. Schnierer was held in high
esteem by Herzl who appointed
him as his deputy on many oc-
casions. He accompanied Herzl
on his journey to Palestine in
1898 and was present at Herzl's
audience with the Kaiser.
Dr. Max Emanuel Mandel-
stamm (1838-1912) enjoyed
great reputation and influence
among Russian Jewry. Herzl
thought of him so highly that
he served as the prototype of
"Dr. Eichenstamm" in his nov-
el, "Altneuland." An ophthal-
mologist of great renown, he be-
came lecturer at the University
of Kiev, but his Jewishness
proved an unsurmountable bar-
rier to an appointment as full
professor. He joined the Hove-
vei Zion and extended valuable
assistance to the victims of the
pogroms in 1882.
Dr. Alexander Marmorek
was one of Dr. Herzl's inti-
mates. While working as an
obstetrician at a Vienna clinic
he made an important discov-
ery regarding sepsis at child
birth, and his publications on
this subject attracted the at-
tention of Pasteur, who in-
vited him to work at his In-
stitute in Paris. To his credit
also is an efficacious serum
against streptococci.
The great respect shown to
Dr. Nathan Karpel Lippe at the
first Zionist Congress was due
not only to the fact that he was
the oldest delegate but also to
his meritorious activities for the
renaissance of Jewish culture
and his initiative in the found-
ing of Zichron Yaacov and Rosh
Pinah. A native of Stanislawow,
he settled in Yassi where he
worked as a physician for 50
years.
Dr. Yechiel Tchlenow is,
again, too well known as an
eminent Zionist leader to re-
quire biographical note here.
When he was elected member
of the Inner Action's Commit-
tee in 1913, he unhesitatingly
relinquished his flourish in g
Moscow practice and moved to
Berlin.
The economist Franz Op-
p enheimer, professor at the
University of Frankfurt (and
incidentally the revered teach-
er of the present West Ger-
man Chancellor, Dr Erhard),
in . 1881 received the degree
of Doctor of Medicine at the
University of Freiburg, where
he practiced as a physician
for some years. Later, he ded-
icated himself exclusively to
economics. He was an expert
on co-operative settlement.
Accepting Herzl's invitation
he addressed the Third Con-
gress on this subject, he pro-
posed the founding of such
settlements on Karen Kaye-
met land and Merchaviah was
set up according to his plans.
An interesting pioneer in
many fields of medicine was
Dr. David Montagu Eder, born
in London in 1866. His principal
objective was to work for vari-
ous social causes and to free
men from mental stress and
pressure. In the crucial years
following the Balfour Declara-
tion he was a member of the
"Zionist Commission" in Jeru-
salem (1918-1922). As one of
the sponsors of the Hebrew Uni-
versity, and a member of the
Zionist Executive in London, he
remained closely connected with
the Zionist movement until his
death in 1936. A militant social-
ist, he was among the founders
of the British Labor Party.
Nonetheless he was convinced
that the solution of the Jewish
problem took precedence over
that of the social question. In
the years of his maturity he
dedicated himself to the study
of psycho-analysis. His observa-
tions of Jewish distress were
among the factors that made
him a disciple of Freud, who,
in a letter of condolence on
Eder's death, wrote: "Both of us
were Jews and we knew that
there was a wonderful inner
bond between us—our Jewish-
ness."
On one occasion Dr. Eder had
remarked that Moses was not
only a prophet but also a physi-
cian, a n d so could lead the
Jews from the serfdom of Egypt
into the Promised Land.
Newton Philanthropist Makes Gift to Boston U.
BOSTON, (JTA)—B os ton Uni-
vers ity has announced that
George Sherman of Newton,
Mass., noted Jewish philanthro-
pist, has given an additional un-
disclosed sum to the university.
The new $5,000,000 University
Union Building is named for
him.
BUSY WINTERS
Winter vacation travelers to
Michigan winter sports areas
totaled a record 200,000 during
the 1962-63 season, according to
the Michigan Tourist Council.
They created a $20 million win-
ter recreation business for the
state.
Pre-season estimates indicate
these figures will be surpassed
during the 1963-64 winter sea-
son.
His latest gift was conceived
in the hope of stimulating other
gifts for the recently planned
$5,500,000 Boston University
Central Library campaign. The
new gift was allocated to ad-
joining malls and a two-tier
connecting corridor which will
eventually link the recently
completed Sherman Union and
the Central Library.
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