Max E. Almond Trunk

Max E. Almond Trunk

Max Emmanuel Mandelstamm (born May 16, 1839 in Žagarė on the Latvian-Lithuanian border, † March 18, 1912 in Kiev ) was a Russian-Jewish early Zionist with a great influence on the Judaism of southern Russia and a well-known ophthalmologist from the school of Alexander Pagenstechers .

Life

From 1868 to 1880 he worked as a private lecturer in ophthalmology at the University of Kiev . When he was refused the full professorship because of his Jewry, he resigned.

Herzl and Mandelstamm in Austria in 1903

Mandelstamm was an early supporter of the Chowewe Zion and one of the initiators and conveners of the Katowice Conference in 1884. It was there that the Chowewe Zion group of Odessa, the center of the movement at that time, was founded. The aim of the conference was to improve the organization of the cooperation between the isolated individual Chowewe Zion associations. Among other things, it was decided to found a Montefiore Association to promote agriculture among the Jews and to support the Jewish colonists in Palestine . Mandelstamm was one of the four Russian delegates in the large action committee of the Zionist movement.

Mandelstamm was friends with Theodor Herzl and fought with him in 1903 against the uprising of the Russian Zionists under Ussishkin caused by Herzl's Uganda policy .

At the 7th Zionist Congress in Basel in August 1905, the majority of which had decided to reject the Uganda project , Mandelstamm left the Zionist movement (after Herzl's death) and joined the Jewish Territorialist Organization (JTO) Zangwills .

literature

• Samuel Löb Zitron : Lexicon zioni . Warsaw 1924, col. 413-414.
• Jewish Lexicon . Volume 3. Jüdischer Verlag, Berlin 1929, Sp. 1360-1361.
• John F. Oppenheimer (Red.) And a .: Lexicon of Judaism. 2nd Edition. Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, Gütersloh u. a. 1971, ISBN 3-570-05964-2 , col. 464.