THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
38 January 23, 1976
An Early Zionist Suffragette-- Maria Reinus
JOE MILLER
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BY JOSEF FRAENKEL
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When Leo Pinsker con- .
vened the first Conference
of the Chovevei Zion in No-
vember, 1884, not a single
woman came to Katowice.
Jewish women showed little
interest in this movement,
which concerned itself al-
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Yet Thou art holy, 0 thou
most exclusively with the
The problem, however, body.
demand that Jews should did not end with this state-
Mrs.
Mrs. Rosa Ellman in- that art enthroned upon the
work on the land, and with ment, though the protocol formed the Congress that a praises of Israel. In Thee did
supporting the colonies in
makes no further mention "provisional committee our fathers trust; They
Palestine.
of it. Not all the ladies were for the creation of a World trusted, and Thou didst de-
It is doubtful, moreover,
"esteemed guests." Three of Federation of Jewish liver them.
—Psalm 22:4-5
whether a woman, even if a
them, including Maria Re- Women" had been consti-
member of Chovevei Zion,
inus, were delegates in their tuted.
own right.
would have been admitted
Its first international con-
ONE MAN
to the meetings.
Maria Reinus (Reines) — ference met during the
Twelve years later, fol- her name will not be found Third Congress — with the
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lowing the appearance of in any book on Zionist his- participation of 51 women.
-
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"The Jewish State,' young tory, the WIZO, or the Had- In January, 1901, the
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Jewesses in many countries
assah — won equality for "Zionist Women's Society"
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raised their voices in order
women during the first Con-
in Vienna invited Herzl to
House Parties-Dances Etc.
to gain support of other gress.
speak to them on "Women
Standards to Rock
Jewish women for the Zion-
She emerged like a glow- and Zionism."
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ist cause. They desired not ing torch, fulfilled her mis-
He said: "What do women
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only to fulfill their duty, but sion — and vanished. Maria
mean to Zionism? I won't
also to obtain "rights." _ .
was born in Russia, studied
say: nothing. What can they
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in Zurich, and came to the
mean, what should they
Hilda Tomaschewsky
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mean? Perhaps everything.
dealt with this question in Basle Congress, where she
was very active. She later And if our campaign goes
an article, "What is Zion-
returned to Russia and mar-
ism Attitude to Women's
the right way, this is bound
ried, and her name and
to happen . . ."
Rights?" (Zion, No. 7/8,
WILL BE
Berlin, 1897), Rosa Pomer- great achievement were
Maria Reinus initiated
anz wrote on "Women and soon forgotten.
"our campaign," and the
The women at the First
Zionism" (Die Welt,
Jewish women themselves
Congress foimed a united
found "the right way."
Vienna, August 20, 1897),
WHEN PHOTOGRAPHED BY
and Zionist women formed group, taking a lively in-
terest in the historic Basle
their own societies —
Only one thing that
"Hadassah" in Vienna, sessions — and participat-
passes never to return is to
"B'naus Zion" in New ing in the voting. When
be deplored, and that is
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Dr. Kornblueh asked his
York, and others.
youth. (Sabbath 152.)
357-1010,
When the first Zionist question it was probably
Congress was opened by directed against his own
Theodor Herzl on August wife and against women
29, 1897, the delegates and "guests" who voted ille•
guests included a number of gally.
It was the formulation of
women who were swept by
the wave of enthusiasm for his interpellation which
that great dream — the prompted Herzl's reply, as
quoted earlier, since he
Jewish state.
Actually the invitations to strove for a quiet and digni-
The
,
the first Congress were ad- fied Congress and wanted to
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—
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preis (Diakovar), Sara Cite- Congress Office. It may pos-
lowitz (Mariopol), - Klara sibly have slipped Heizl's
Hirschensohn (Jessy), Mrs. mind for the moment that
Kornblueh (Frieberg), Ber- three women had such
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Reinus (Zurich), Klara at that, since Herzl did not
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Maria Reinus had suc-
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President (Herzl): "The (1898) decided that "women
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