Monatsschrift für Geschichte und Wissenschaft des Judentums · 1932-01-01 · Heft 3 · p. Seite 224

224 Joseph Carobereits erwähnt, ,,Disraeli bahnt jenen Weg zur Assimilation an“ (im Tancred), und seine Stellung zur Assimilation wird S. 70 ff, weiter ausgeführt. Zionist und Assimilant, wie reimt sich das? Buckle hält Disraeli nicht für einen Zionisten; “A.fervent believer in race, he had not been converted, even by the siiccess of the Italian Risorgimento and by the establishment of the German Empire, to any sympathy with the cognate idea of nationality. His belief in race as a principle was in its essence a belief in his own race. . . . The modern Zionist movement for the restoration of Jewish population and power in their ancient land had not yet begun, and Jewish aspirations were still mainly directed to the attainment first of equality of status, and next of a leading position in business, art, and politics, among the several nations where they were settled“ (VI, 10). Sogar Raymond sagt: “Even at this high tide of his emotion (sc. als er den Tancred schrieb) Disraeli was not swept into fancying that the destiny of his people was to rule a'little strip of territory between the Mediterranean and the Jordan, or that his mission was to restore the chosen people to the Holy Land. Even in Zion he was no Zionist“ (S. 37), Disraeli selbst hätte sich, auch heute, ganz entschieden gegen eine solche Unterstellung venwahrt. Um moderner Zionist zu sein, war er zu viel Engländer, und auf sein Engländertum zu stolz. Einem so kühnen, ehrgeizigen, nach dem Höchsten strebenden Geiste in seiner Auffassung vom Judentume zuzumuten, daß er den Juden die Herrschaft über das kleine• Palästina verschaffen wolle, ist absurd. Wie sagt Alroy? “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, —־ ever harping on Jerusalem.. With all his (sc. Jabaster’s) 10ve, he is a narrowminded Zealot, whose dreaming memory would fondly make a future iik'e the past. O Bagdad, Bagdad, within thy glittering halls, there is a charm worth all his Cabala“ (S. 135 f. Tauchnitz ed.), und: “Shall this quick blaze of empire sink to a glimmering and a twilight sway over some petty province, the decent patriarch of a pastoral horde? Is the Lord of Hosts so slight a God, that we must place a barrier to his sovereignty, and fix the boundaries of Omnipotence between the Jordan and the Lebanon? It is not thus written, and were it so, 1*11 pit my inspiration against the prescience of. my ancestors. I also am a prophet, and Bagdad shall be my Sion“ (ebda S. 152). Disraeli fühlte sich durch einen