and advance friendly relations between the Arabs and the Jews, and that the students whom it educated would go out into the world and spread Palestinian ideals among their co-religionists. Even Nordau did not deny that it was practical to make agricultural, economic, and educational experiments in the Holy Land, such as model farms, a Herzl forest, co-operative societies, and a University. But he urged that, although such practical work had so far only resulted in changing the position of 50,000 Jews out of the ten millions in dire need of immediate help, it did none the less prove a. theory, and largely and nobly benefit the whole of Jewry by its value and example.
If you go to Palestine (said Nordau) and see a house with a tidy appearance, and ask, Whose house is this? you will be answered, 'It is that of a Jew and a Zionist'. If you see people who are decently clothed, who hold their heads high, who sedulously cultivate the soil; and if, in the midst of deserts where there is no shade, you light upon a place where there are trees, and you ask who planted these trees, again you will be told 'a Jew and a Zionist did this work'. This creates an impression and is a herald of Jewish capacity and dignity.
Wolffsohn died in September 1914. During his illness the leadership of the movement was vested in the Inner Actions Committee, consisting of Warburg, Tchlenov, Sokolov, Hantke, Lewin, and Jacobson, and the administration had been shifted for a while from Cologne to Berlin under Sokolov’s management; but the outbreak of the Great War made it necessary for the Zionists to leave Berlin. The members of the Inner Actions Committee went to Copenhagen, and then to New York, where a Provisional Actions Committee, or Emergency Executive, was organized under the chairmanship of Louis D. Brandeis, now a Judge of the Supreme Court of the United States. His Jewish Problem and How to Solve It[1] is one of the most striking Zionist pamphlets which have appeared. He claims that Zionism is not incompatible with
- ↑ Zionist Essays Publication Committee, New York, 1915.
