Echiel Tschlenow

Echiel Wolfowitsch Tschlenow (also Jechiel ; * 1864 in Kremenchuk ; † January 31, 1918 in London ) was a doctor in Moscow and one of the leaders of the Russian Zionists . He was the second chairman of the narrow action committee and 1911-1914 the actual leader of the Zionist World Organization .

Life

Before the Chowewe Zion movement came into being , he and Ussischkin , AD Idelsohn, Rabbi Mase and others had created the first Palestinophile-academic association Bne Zion in Moscow, of which he was chairman. He joined the movement only after the first Zionist Congress , but then immediately headed the important Russian organization and developed a wide range of propaganda and organizational activities.

In October 1902, Chlenov chaired the general national conference of Russian Zionists in Minsk (the second conference of Russian Zionists), first approved by Interior Minister Plehwe , with more than 400 participants and thousands of guests. Two focal points emerged: 1. the organizational question (first appearance of the Democratic-Zionist faction as a closed organization, headed by Motzkin and Weizmann ); 2. The cultural question (large-scale presentation by Achad Haam on national cultural work).

Echiel Tschlenow was the only one of the Russian members of the Great Action Committee who completely rejected the Uganda plan at the meeting on August 21, 1903 immediately before the 6th Zionist Congress (while Bernstein-Kohan had declared that the Russian Jews in the existing Able to emigrate even to hell ), remained a sharp opponent of the Uganda project, sat at the head of the Zijone Zion and instead advocated the practical colonization in Erez Israel .

After the 7th Zionist Congress, Chlenov took over the administration of the Jewish National Fund in Russia with great success . From 1913 until his death, Tschlenow was a member of the narrow action committee of the world organization. After his election at the 11th Zionist Congress in Vienna in 1913, he renounced his successful medical practice in Moscow, left his family behind, who could not leave Russia, and moved to Berlin, where the work of the Zionist leadership had concentrated. Due to the war, he stayed in Copenhagen, London and Paris before returning to Moscow, again leading the Russian Zionists and advocating the convening of a general Jewish congress in Russia.

From October 1917 he had been in London, where the Zionist center had now formed, and took part in negotiations with the British government about the establishment of the national Jewish homeland before death tore him from his work.

Works (selection)

• Palestine or another country , Berlin 1906
• The Development of Political Zionism and the Tasks of the Present Moment , Petersburg 1907 (Russian)
• The Jewish National Fund, its activities in the past and in the near future , Moscow 1909 (Russian)
• Five years of work in Palestine , Berlin 1913
• The War, the Russian Revolution and Zionism , Copenhagen 1916

literature

• Tschlenow-Buch , Lodz 1918 (Yiddish)
• A memorial to Jechiel Tschlenow , The Hague: Jewish National Fund, 1918
• L. Berson: Album in memory of Tschlenow , Kristiania 1919

Web links

• Членов Иехиэль Entry of the Elektronnaja Evrejskaja Enciklopedija, Russian, sighted July 7, 2010