ZIONIST LIBRARY FOR BOYS & GIRLS I ALLIANCE ISRAELITE I EMANCIPATION OF THE JEWS IN GERMANY I HASKALAH 4 MOSES HESS 5 PERETZ SMOLENSKIN . 6 LEON PINSKER 7 THEODORE HERZL No ISSUED BY HASHOMER HATZAIR ZIONIST SCOUT MOVEMENT 198, BLOOMSBURY H…

Dear chavcrim, Wc arc issuing a: number of booklets on outstanding Zionist personalities, and on important periods in Zionist History. Wc hope that you villi find these booklets interesting, and that they vjill help you to take an active pa…

THE JEWS IB FRiuTCE. On the eve of the French Revolution, the French Jews lived imefc the sane miserable life as Jews all over the world., restricted to ghettos and subject to persecution. at the outbreak of the £ovolution in 1789, the . Je…

*\ his convictions (not even his religious ones-) as. long as this docs not endanger the established social order", From this one would think: that' the Jcy^s mere also included. This however is not so for the new law did not apply to them …

-1- THE' ALLIANCE ISRAELITE UlIVERSELLE The Jews in France were the most assimilated of all. France v.-as the place of the great Revolution and its revolutionary ideas "which demanded freedom and equality for all, and found its results also…

-2to create a $or Id Organisation which would guard the Jews against oppression from the outside world. It was in a^sense a brotherhood of Jews - who would boldly say what they thought best for the Jews all over the world no matter whether …

Congress in the year 1878 and demanded the defence of the Roumanian Jews. When the French Government made a Trade-Treaty with Switzerland, Cremieux immediately demanded that all Jews who would now shift to Switzerland should have the same r…

down speedily. The .Alliance sent out a member of its committee for instance to Morocco - in order to investigate the conditions of the Jov.s tjicre. What did he see there? The Jews were treated like slaves. They were not allowed to pass th…

stated that TTif His Majesty the Sultan is interested to keep up friendly relationships with the Christian world he should stop cruelty against the Jews at once." The same happened in PeBia. The Alliance in France and the Anglo-Jewish Assoc…

~6of the soil., The place chosen for the school was near Jaffa - where a strip of land was "bought from « the Turkish Sultan and from whom permission for the foundation of that school was gained. The funds for the school were raised from an…

ZIONIST LIBRARY FOR BOYS & GIRLS ALLIANCE ISRAELITE : EMANCIPATION OF THE JEWS IN GERMANY HASKALAH > MOSES HESS J PERETZ SMOLENSKIN ( LEON PINSKER ' THEODORE HERZL No 2 ISSUED BY HASHOMER HATZAIR ZIONIST SCOUT MOVEMENT 198, BLOOMSB…

THE EM&ffCIEAIglOfl OF THE JBWS Iff. GEHMAZIU. The French Revolution of 1789 provided the lever *.0 the slowiy developing emancipation of Jews in Europe. In the following few lines you will be given a general picture of the position, of Eur…

Lu&TJig Borne (Lole Barueh) , who was born in the ghetto and later became a lighter for Jewish freedom,- writes ironically about Jewish, life in 1786■ . "The Government is looking after them well- On Sunday they are not allowed to leave the…

the highest possible achievement whs to become p. "schutz-jUdo" ("a T'protoctod Jew) . These Jews received a special letter giving then the "protection" of the Government, for which they hod to pay 'a considerable sun of money. The EMANCIPA…

place for ell-know men, and a centre for disputes and discussions. Moses Mendelsohn was a religious. Jew and a Hebraist0 He .fought for the emancipation of the Jew inside his own community and outside in the Christian world. Ho always tried…

to large, anti-semitism also grew-. The Jews being regarded wherever they wont as unwanted strangers, taking occupations wanted by Ion-Jews The road to freedom was not so easily gained, as the generation which followed Mendelsohn believed. …

ZIONIST LIBRARY FOR BOYS & GIRLS ALLIANCE ISRAELITE EMANCIPATION OF THE JEWS IN GERMANY HASKALAH MOSES HESS PERETZ SMOLENSKIN LEON PINSKER THEODORE HERZL No 3 ISSUED BY HASHOMER HATZAIR ZIONIST SCOUT MOVEMENT 198, BLOOMSBURY HO…

— EASKikM THE JEWS IH RUSSIA In the 19 £h Century, when the Western countries were fighting for their national freedom - and when slogans like "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity" .were influencing and changing all Western Europe - Russia was st…

~2thosc children very often preferred to choose death rather than give up their Judaism, (We arc told of young Jewish children who wore ordered to draw wator from a river so that they could ho batized. nAy, sir" - the childrent replied, and…

-3- Hii.SMl.i4 is the Hebrew word for ,Tenlightenment11-. In a way this movement, which developed in Poland and in Russia, was an imitation of the Emancipation movement in Germany, , ■ The Haskala-Movement had the same aims as the German Em…