Zionist library for boys and girls · 1908-01-01 · 3 · p. Seite 5

to the non-Jew {.that ^as the way they understood the aims of the Haskala - and they wre very disappointed "by the happenings Y/M.Qhoccurred in Russia afterwards). But many went further in their search to solve the Jewish problem and they not only tried to find human rights for every individual Jew, hut for the Jevjs as a people. A few great men realised already that a complete freedom for the Jewish people could only he assured by the return to the land. In this sense, in the revival of Hebrew and in the fight for freedom, the Haskala movement must be regarded as a forerunner of the Zionist movement. You will read more about the Haskala in the short biography on Smolenskin - who was an important leader of the Haskala Movement.