Davis Trietsch

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Davis Trietsch in Eretz Israel, 1912
Berlin 1902: Founding members of the Jewish publishing house . V. l. To right: (standing) EM Lilien , Chaim Weizmann , Davis Trietsch, (sitting) Berthold Feiwel and Martin Buber .

Davis Trietsch (born January 4, 1870 in Dresden ; † January 31, 1935 in Tel Aviv ) was a German writer and Zionist economic politician, co-founder and co-editor of East and West (Berlin 1901–1923, founded by Leo Winz ; in the sense of The programmatic title of the magazine was primarily intended to convey the cultural achievements of Jews in Eastern Europe to the assimilated Jews of the West ), the opposition Zionist Birnbaum magazine Der Weg (1903) and the magazine Palestine (published from 1902 to 1938 in Berlin, then in Munich , then in Vienna).

Life

Trietsch lived after long journeys through Europe 1893-1899 in New York City , where he studied the Jewish migration problem whose solution he in 1895, long before Herzl the policy called Zionism into being, the colonization of Cyprus suggested. Since June 1898 at the latest, Herzl has also considered - because the poor masses need immediate help - to give the Zionist movement a closer territorial goal while maintaining Zion as the ultimate goal ; he thought of Cyprus, South Africa or America .

After Davis Trietsch joined the Zionist movement and took part in the first Zionist Congress (he was one of the four participants from America, alongside Rosa Sonnenschein, Adam Rosenberg and Rabbi Schepsel Schaffer from Baltimore , who was the only American delegate; the rest were mere participants ), he stood up as a practical Zionist and supporter of the immediate colonization against Herzl and called for a colonization program for Greater Palestine , which also included the two then English neighboring countries Cyprus and El Arish, and which he wrote in books for decades, Propagated essays and speeches. He himself referred to this as Zionist maximalism . Trietsch sent Herzl a memorandum on this in December 1897. In his reply of December 29, 1897, Herzl had called the proposal interesting , but did not consider it opportune to speak of it at the moment . At the end of 1899, Herzl once again found Trietsch's activities and the idea to be very sensible , but could not publicly explain them.

Davis Trietsch later lived in Berlin. There he was also a co-founder of the Jewish publishing house in 1902 . His writing and journalistic activities also included the publication of maps and diagrams on the development of Jewish life around the world. In 1932 he emigrated to Palestine.

Further works / journalism (selection)

literature

  • Citron : Lexicon zioni . Warsaw 1924, column 259
  • Georg Herlitz: "Davis Trietsch", in: Jüdisches Lexikon , Berlin 1927, Volume IV / 2, Sp. 1053-1054
  • John F. Oppenheimer (Red.) And a .: Lexicon of Judaism. 2nd Edition. Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, Gütersloh u. a. 1971, ISBN 3-570-05964-2 , col. 814.
  • Theodor Herzl: Letters and Diaries , ed. v. A. Bein , H. Greive , M. Schaerf u. JH Schoeps , 7 vols., Propylaea, Frankfurt / M., Berlin 1983-96
  • Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945. Edited by the Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem. Saur, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lionel Gossman: Art Nouveau in Firestone: The Jewish Illustrator EM Lilien (1874-1925). , last page
personal data
SURNAME Trietsch, Davis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and Zionist economic politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 4, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH January 31, 1935
Place of death Tel Aviv