Young Israel
Jung-Israel was a Zionist student association in Germany, founded in 1892 by Heinrich Loewe . Founding members were also some Eastern Jews of the Russian-Jewish-Scientific Association as well as German-speaking Jews from Courland and Galicia . The aim of the association was to awaken the awareness of the national belonging of the Jewish people, as well as to cultivate Jewish life and Jewish science. Young Israel belongs to the core of the national Jewish movement, which created the spiritual foundations for Political Zionism .
The members saw themselves as loyal German citizens of Jewish nationality . This self-image led to confrontations that were fought out in the Jewish press. Opponents of the national-Jewish movement pointed to the identity of nation and nation-state and saw it almost as an application by the Jews themselves to be placed under aliens law in Germany. ... The national in Judaism is the accidental, the religion the permanent. This contrasted with the view held by Young Israel that also nationally minded Jews could be loyal citizens of Germany. The claim that Israel is a nation could also raise the issue of citizenship rights for Jews in those states where they were granted to them as a religious community but not as an ethnic unit.
Young Israel largely met with rejection and eventually joined the Zionist Association in Vienna. In this context, a congress together with the associations of Russia, Romania and Austria should formulate the goals of political pan-Judaic Zionism, which should lead to a reorganization of the colonization of Palestine.
Individual evidence
- ↑ quoted from: Yehuda Eloni: Zionism in Germany. From the beginnings to 1914. Series of publications by the Institute for German History, Tel-Aviv University, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-88350-455-6 , p. 63
- ↑ both quotations from: Yehuda Eloni: Zionism in Germany. From the beginnings to 1914. Series of publications by the Institute for German History, Tel-Aviv University, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-88350-455-6 , p. 64