Report to the ... Zionist Congress and to the Council of the Jewish Agency in ... · 1935-08-01 · 8.1935 · p. Seite 13

Zionist Organisation in the Jewish world and particularly in the circles of the non-Zionist friends of Palestine. The period under review has also shown the fruitful beginnings of a revival and intensification of the collective life of our Organisation. It will be the task of the Congress and of the new Executive to develop those beginnings, to find suitable forms for the simplification of our movement and the productive combination of all constructive forces, to reorganise Zionist propaganda, to ensure the definite adherence of the vast numbers who have become attached to our movement for the first time through the force of events—in short, to consummate the consolidation of the Zionist movement both in the sphere of organisation and of ideology. 1. State of the Organisation. The Zionist Organisation consists of Federations and Separate Unions. Federations are associations of Zionists united on a purely territorial basis, extending generally over entire States and in certain cases (Poland, Rumania and France) only parts of States. In many countries with a small Jewish population, mostly outside Europe, there are loose Zionist groups which are either too scattered or too small to be combined in Federations. The transition from the stage of groups into organised Federations is gradual and the dividing line between these stages of development must be specially fixed in each individual case. Members of the Federations who do not belong to Separate Unions are generally called " General Zionists." Separate Unions are inter-territorial associations of Zionists who represent an established principle within the Zionist Organisation and have been recognised as separate organisation units by the General Council. They possess branch groups in various countries, and that which has just been said about Federations and groups applies analogously to them. (a) Zionist Federations. The number of organised Federations during the period of this report has not undergone any change. There are Federations in the following forty-one countries : America, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bessarabia, Brazil, Bukowina, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Czecho-Slovakia, Danzig, Denmark, England, Estonia, Finland, France, East France, East Galicia, West Galicia, Germany, Greece, Holland, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mexico, Morocco, Norway, Poland, Rumania, Siberia, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Transylvania, Tunis and Yugoslavia. Reference will be made later to the special position of Palestine. On the whole, there has been an increase in the membership of the Federations and also in their activity, but, on the other hand, 13