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JEWISH $3.00 Frontier ZIONISM : a CENTURY of MIRACLES JEWISH $3.00 Frontier ZIONISM : A CENTURY OF MIRACLES MYSTERY: MISSING YEMENITE CHILDREN 1948 : I SHOT DOWN AN ARAB WARPLANE THEOCRACY vs DEMOCRACY ZIONIST CONGRESS ELECTIONS : Program and Slate MODERN YIDDISH CULTURE (Review) BIOGRAPHY: DAVID PINSKI S I N C E 19 3 4 A LABOR ZIONIST JOURNAL BUILD A 20 YEAR TRUST FOR SOMEONE YOU LOVE . (AND BUILD A HOME FOR THE ELDERLY) FUND YOUR RETIREMENT. (WHILE FUNDING EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS) SAVE FOR A CHILD'S COLLEGE EDUCATION . (AND SAVE LIVES BY SUPPORTING MEDICAL RESEARCH) r '- EMOTIONAL INVESTMENTSYES, PLEASE SEND ME MORE INFORMATION ON I CAN HELP HOW . At IHF you can put your from one generation to the next . manity. What better way to save! HUMANITY AND SAVE ON TAXES WITH AN IHFTRUST OR ANNUITY money to work for you, your HELP SAVE FOR YOURSELF HELP SAVE ON TAXES . family and friends as well as YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS . Another added benefit- there humanity. 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ISRAEL HISTADRUT FOUNDATION INC. 276 FIFTH AVE..NY, NY 10001 . i AMAL FUND • MISHAN FUND • ISRAEL HUMANITARIAN FUND • ISRAEL HEALTHCARE FUND PHILANTHROPY & EDUCATION FL. 2 JEWISH FRONTIER The Banner of Labor Zionism J we approach the opening of the 33rd World Zionist Congress in Jerusalem in December, the AmericanNs Labor Zionist movement and its broad circle of friends has mobilized to vote for a large Labor Zionist contingent (Slate #6) . See pages 8 and 9 for a statement of policies and a list of candi- dates. Eligible voters must see to it that the ballots are received by the Election Committee before September 30 . Cast your vote for #6 and mail promptly. Above poster - in Yiddish, then the prevalent language in Poale Zion ranks - celebrated the organization's 10th convention in Boston in 1916 . Photo courtesy of Sham (Gootman) Eden of Cincin- nati, who is compiling a history of the movement in that city . 0 SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 1997 3 JEWISH CONTENTSVol. LXIV, No.,,~(628) Frontier SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 1997 SINCE 1934 The Banner of Labor Zionism 3 A LABOR ZIONIST JOURNAL Zionism 5 A CENTURY OF MIRACLES Misha Louvish Founders Hayim Greenberg Zionist Congress Elections 8 Marie Syrkin Israel 10 TAKING STOCK Susan Hattis Rolef Editorial Board THEOCRACY vs DEMOCRACY 13 Henry Feingold, Chairman Saadia Gelb Saul B . Cohen Hyman Faine Memoir 17 Jonathan J. Goldberg Emanuel S. Goldsmith STATE OF ISRAEL IS BORN! Max Alper Jerry Goodman Rabbi Mark W. Kiel Musings 19 Jeffry V. Mallow DROUGHT William Finn Daniel Mann Mordecai Newman Samuel Norich History 21 Michael S . Perry THE JEWISH BUND AND Mark Raider THE BOLSHEVIKS Harold Ticktin Eduardo Rauch Chava Reich Biography 25 Mordecai Shtrigler Ezra Spicehandler DAVID PINSKI David Rosenthal Phyllis Sutker David Twersky Books 28 MODERN YIDDISH CULTURE by EMANUEL S. GOLDSMITH Chava Reich Nahum Guttman Editor Poetry 29 TASHLIH Sanford Pinsker In the Movement 31 NOTE TO SUBSCRIBERS If you plan to move, please notify Contributors 16 us six weeks in advance . JEWISH FRONTIER (ISSN-0021-6453) is published bi-monthly by Labor Zionist JEWISH FRONTIER Letters, Inc. Editorial and advertising offices at 275 Seventh Avenue, New York, NY 10001 . Periodicals postage paid at New York, NY . POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Circulation, Jewish Frontier, 275 Seventh Avenue, 17th Floor, New York, 275 Seventh Avenue NY 10001 . 17th Floor Subscription rates for U.S. and possessions, $15 .00 per year for 6 issues, $25.00 for two years for 12 issues . Add $2.50 for Canada . 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JEWISH FRONTIER ZIONISM A Century of Miracles By Misha Louvish he history of Zionism is marked by a long the creation of a State for the Jewish people Tstring of processes and events which seem to and defined the methods for achieving the aim, be outside the normal development of human but his success in establishing an instrument affairs, and which we may, by a slight stretch for realizing it : the Zionist Organization, with of the meaning, call miracles . its Congress, president and executive, its "citi- The soil in which the Zionist idea took root zenship" - the shekel - and its parties : a was the miraculous survival of the Jewish peo- framework for a state in exile before there was ple as a distinct national entity over nearly two a territory. thousand years of dispersion and statelessness . Its identity was dominated by religious beliefs he next outstanding stage in the progress and observances, but no other religious commu- of Zionism was the success of one man, nity has displayed anything like the solidarity TChaim Weizmann, in negotiating with a great and sense of common destiny displayed by the power as the leader of a nation which did not Jews - characteristics which usually bind the yet exist and securing its support for the estab- citizens of a nation-state . lishment of the Jewish National Home. The In the nineteenth century there was the Balfour Declaration was the basis for the miracle of the Jewish cultural renaissance League of Nations' recognition of "the histori- known as the Haskalah . The scattered commu- cal connection of the Jewish people with Pales- nities produced two literatures : one in Yiddish tine and. the grounds for reconstituting their and one in Hebrew, with their novels and national home in that country," which was the short-stories, their essays and critical reviews. foundation for Britain's rule as the Mandatory This they did in one language which had been Power. a medium of conversation and folktales and in Side by side with the successful political another which had been used mainly for reli- efforts of the Diaspora-based Zionist Organiza- gious commentary and the interpretation of tion, there were the efforts of the pioneers in religious sources . That, too, is little short of a the homeland, who built the Yishuv, the Jew- miracle. ish community which was a state within the Influenced by the rise of European national- state, with its own national institutions, and ism, a number of Jewish writers began to advo- created a Jewish working class, with its power- cate the creation of a Jewish national home, ful labor federation, the Histadrut. which some of them coupled with the return to Not the least of the "miracles" that punctu- the ancestral homeland. Various groups began ated the history of the movement was the to promote this aim by settling in Palestine emergence of a charismatic leader, David Ben- and establishing settlements which would Gurion, whose far-sighted vision played a deci- form the nucleus of the future state . An orga- sive part in the development of the dominant nization, Hibbat Tziyon ("Love of Zion") was role of the labor movement in the Yishuv and set up to help them . the Zionist movement, the transition to state- The miracle of Herzl was not only the strik- hood, and the consolidation of the Jewish ing form in which he expressed the need for State. SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 1997 Perhaps the most important of the policy welfare state without powers of taxation and decisions for which Ben-Gurion, in cooperation coercion. with Weizmann, obtained the support of a Nor was it easy to arm and train the majority in the Yishuv and the Zionist move- Haganah, the nucleus of the Israel Defense ment was the recognition of the need to take Forces, under the eye of the British Mandatory into account the power and aspirations of the Government, so that when the trial came the Arab population of Palestine . small Yishuv could defend itself against the In the early years the strategy was to settle onslaught of the Palestinian Arabs and the the land, build up the Jewish economy, and surrounding Arab states . increase the Jewish population by aliyah until All these efforts were part of the implemen- the Jews were a majority and democratic insti- tation of Zionist aims . tutions could be established . In view of the vio- When independent Israel was established lent resistance of the Arabs and the British in 1948, the Jewish State itself became the refusal to realize the aims of the Mandate by major instrument for the realization of Zion- force, it turned out that this policy was not ism - it was the Israelis who had to build the practical.
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