Early American Zionist History, Partnership
Related to State-Building, Related by Rubin

Jacob A. Rubin, author of an illus- by Wilson to the Supreme Council author commences with the decla-
ration of President John Adams,
expressing his view that there
should be a redeemed Zion for the
Jewish people, and the total re-
view of Christian efforts presents
creation of Israel in "Partners in
ing economic development of the a valuable and interesting chapter
State-Building," published by Diplo-
country. This means on the north in inter-faith friendship and co-
matic Press (11 W. 42nd, NY36).
Palestine must include the operation.
Much of the material that ap-
A large book, filled with photo-
Litani River, and the watersheds
of the Hermon, and on the east, peared in relation to Zionism and
graphs that provide a total view of
Israel
in the Congressional Record
it must include the plains of the
the experiences of Americans and
Jordan and the Houron. Narrow- is referred to, much of it photogra-
Israelis in the emergence of Israel
phically reproduced, provides an
and its subsequent experiences,
er than this is mutilation."
this work is outstanding as an his-
In these and scores of other facts idea of the extent of political acti-
torical record of achievements, of gathered here the reader has a vities in the last 50 years.
diplomatic negotiations, of creative summary of the events that took
In this "Spiral of Political De-
velopment" we are offered a view
efforts.
place during the writing of the
of
labors that embraced many
The value of this work lies not peace treaty after World War I,
leaders in many states and the
only in its presentation of details the subsequent eras that were
concern over Zionist aspirations
of modern Zionist experiences marked by pogroms, the World War
that grew by leaps and bounds
but also in the outlines of the H period, the struggle for rescue,
during the tragic years of the
backgrounds, dating back to the the emergence of Israel, the aid
last war.
earliest concerns shown by Amer- given by the United States, the ac-
The aftermath, the struggles at
ican Jews in the dream for a re- tivities of Dr. Chaim Weizmann,
built Zion. The author takes the President Harry S. Truman's the UN, the actors in the drama at
reader back to the 18th Century, friendship, the role of President the world organization's sessions,
to the efforts of Mordecai Manuel Roosevelt and other American form one of the major chapters in
Noah to establish a Jewish state, leaders.
this book.
first by establishing a Jewish
The letter addressed by Presi-
In the battle against the White
colony at Grand Island near Buf-
dent_Herbert Hoover to Philip Paper of 1939 and British perfidy
falo. He quotes from a sermon
S16noiltz, then president of the there also were involved American
delivered by Mendes Seises, who
Zionist Organization of Detroit, Jewish spokesmen, and this, too,
ministered in the oldest Ameri-
on the occasion of the convening forms a portion of vital interest to
can synagogue, the Spanish-
here, on June 30, 1929, of the history in Rubin's analyses.
Portuguese Shearit Israel, about
32nd annual convention of the
Naturally, the work of the
1800, when he spoke of the expec-
Zionist Organization of America,
United Jewish Appeal and Israel
the
outcasts
of
Is-
tation "when
is reproduced.
Bonds, as well as the JNF, Keren
rael shall be gathered together,
Hayesod, United Israel Appeal,
Rubin describes the formation of
as it IS said in Isaiah."
Hadassah, Histadrut, share in
the Jewish Legion during World
the developing story.
From that point on, he takes his War I and the part the legion play-
The
hundreds of photographs in
readers through history, the dreams ed in the liberation of Palestine
of Emma Lazarus who expressed from the Turks. He tells about the this volume supplement the basic
the Zionist idea in her poetry, and activities of Vladimir Jabotinsky facts about a noteworthy libertar-
the formation of early Zionist so- and David Ben-Gurion, and he com- ian history. Rubin's creative efforts
cieties, like those of Knights Zion ments that there was special en- enrich the Zionist and Israel library
in Chicago, the Bnai Zion, Ohavei thusiasm in the enrollment of Jew- and they serve much in adding
data to- the history of American
ish Legion volunteers in Detroit.
Zion and others.
So vast was the effort of non- Jewry. Because of the scrutiny of
Factors of special note in this
work are the introduction of the Jews in support of the Zionist ideal facts in the latter area it also
many notables who have contri- that an entire section in this book serves well as a source book in
buted towards Zionist history and is devoted to the subject. The American history.
Israel's upbuilding, and the author
has gathered facts to indicate the
role of pioneer rabbis, among them
several who were prominent in the
Reform ranks, and statesmen of
note.
Some of the facts are unique. For
instance, there is a photograph of
"a group of organizers and can-
vassers for the first Shekel Day
proclaimed for Nov. 9, 1902"—the
shekel having been the fee for
membership in the Zionist move-
ment.
Reproductions of Zionist buttons,
of the official call for the conven-
tion of the Federation of American
Zionists in 1898, of Theodor Herzl's
last message to American Zionists
in 1904, of a Zionist convention
gathering in Tannersville, N. Y., in
1906, of Jewish National Fund me-
mentos—all throw light on past his-
tory and link Zionism with state-
building.
It was not all roses, and Ru-
bin's history shows how the lack

trated history of the United Na- of the Versailles Peace Conference
tions, a pictorial history of Israel, in which he stated:
a volume about American foreign
"The Zionist cause depends
aid, and other works, elaborates
upon rational northern and east-
upon_ American Jewry's role in the
ern boundaries for a self-sustain-

`Now Generation Letters'
Airs Dilemmas of Youth

Friday, February 28, 1969-13

In all their seeming disregard for
the values and standards of their
parents, young people still seek to
find some guides to conduct and
belief that make sense to them, I
Rabbi Joseph R. Narot makes clear
in his new book, "Letters to the
Now Generation," which seeks to
meet the dilemma of youth by

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Dr. Narot is senior rabbi, are di- I

dealing candidly and sympathetic-
ally with their quest and questions.
Although the letters, which first
appeared in the bulletin of Temple

rected to Jewish youth and values,

the principles are universal and
apply to all young people.
The paperback will be published
Monday by the Union of American
Hebrew Congregations.

Life imitates art far more than
—Oscar Wilde
art imitates life.

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of funds handicapped the Zion-
ists, how the anti-Zionist forces
sought to discredit the nationalist
idea, one publication having call-
ed Zionists "dupes" and in Vienna
Chief Rabbi Guedeman branded
Zionism "a suicide attempt." The
tracing of these historic back-
grounds lead up to the organiza-
tional efforts which later built
the strong Zionist movement in
this country, and the various eras
are linked into a single impres-
sive history in Rubin's "Partners
in State-Building."

Glorious names that have filled
this history thus appear in the de-
scription of the rise of American
Zionism—those of Mr. Justice Louis

D. Brandeis, Judge Julian Mack.
Dr. Stephen S. Wise, the poet Jessie

Sampter, Henrietta Szold, the labor
and religious leaders, and the
Christians who displayed a deep
interest in the movement.
It is especially interesting to fol-
low the review of the role of Presi-
dent Woodrow Wilson in the emerg-
ing requests for the recognition of
Jewish rights to Palestine. Rubin
quotes from a communication sent

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