Saul Raphael Landau

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Saul Raphael Landau (also: Saul Rafael Landau, * 1870 in Krakow ; † July 16, 1943 in Manhattan , New York ) was a lawyer and Jewish publicist.

Life

Landau became a staunch Zionist at an early age and made articles for Jewish magazines, especially for German-language and Polish papers, including Nathan Birnbaum's self-emancipation .

From 1892 he was on the board of the Vienna National Jewish Association Admath Jeschurun . From 1893 to 1895 he was a lecturer in the history of the Jews in Poland at the Vienna Jewish Theological Institute. During this time he also worked on the Allgemeine Zeitung des Judenthums , the Berlin Jewish Press and the organ of the Lviv National Jews.

He was a co-signer of the first appeal of the Zion Association (early February 1893). In 1895 he got in touch with Theodor Herzl , whose collaborator he became. Landau suggested a Zionist central body, and in 1897 he became the first editor-in-chief of the Zionist weekly newspaper Die Welt , which was launched by Herzl (this remained until July 1897).

As a member of the program commission of the First Zionist World Congress , he was involved in the development of the Basel program , but after a falling out , separated from Herzl and founded an independent Zionist organization for Jewish workers and employees, Achwah . In 1898 he was the founder and editor of the monthly Der Jewish Arbeiter , in 1899 he worked for Joseph Samuel Bloch's Österreichischer Wochenschrift , which polemicized against Herzl.

Landau then wrote spiteful articles directed against Herzl and his work and worked on the national Jewish -non-Zionist Jüdischer Volksblatt . In his considerations Landau partially anticipated the ideas of Poale Zionism. From 1907 to 1917 he published the Neue Nationalzeitung (the former Jewish Volksblatt after it was taken over and converted).

His stories have been published in various magazines.

After the “Anschluss” of Austria, Saul Raphael Landau emigrated to London in 1939 and to the USA in 1941.

Works

  • Sionizm (Polish), 1897
  • Among Jewish proletarians (1898, preliminary version to be read in the "Welt")
  • The Polish Club and its house Jews. Basic lines of Jewish people's policy in Austria , 1907
  • Sturm und Drang in Zionism: Reviews of a Zionist before, with and around Theodor Herzl , Vienna 1937 (memoirs, also brings numerous letters from Herzl)

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personal data
SURNAME Landau, Saul Raphael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Landau, Saul Rafael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Jewish publicist
DATE OF BIRTH 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Krakow
DATE OF DEATH July 16, 1943
Place of death Manhattan , New York