Schlomo Kaplansky

Schlomo Kaplansky (also: Solomon Kaplansky, Schlomo Kaplansky or Shlomo Kaplansky; born March 7, 1884 in Białystok , Poland , † December 7, 1950 in Haifa ) was a Zionist politician, socialist and leader of the Poale Zion movement .

Life

For the Poale Zion movement he was in Vienna from 1904 to 1912 , and from 1904 editor of the organ of the Austrian Poale Zion, The Jewish Worker . In 1906 he wrote the program for the entire party. In 1907 he was co-founder and since then first secretary of the world association of Poale Zion, 1912 to 1919 in Palestine (since 1912 head of the labor secretariat of the Poale Zion association in Palestine ; 1913 to 1919 secretary in the main office of Keren Kajemeth ; wrote 1915 for the Socialist International, the memorandum The Jews in War and other writings), 1920 to 1924 in London (representative of Poale Zion at the English Labor Party ). He was particularly interested in the cooperative agrarian colonization and the education about Zionism in the Socialist International, in whose executive he represented the Poale Zion.

In Vienna he belonged to the "Association of Zionist University Students from Russia Leo Pinsker ", which he chaired for several years.

Moved to Palestine at the end of 1924 ; Since then he has been a member of the Zionist executive (responsible for financial and economic issues, member of the board of directors of Keren Hajessod , head of the agricultural colonization department; since 1928 head of the economic center of Histadrut ho-owedim ).

From 1932 to 1950 he was head of the Technion in Haifa.

Works

• Problems of Palestine Colonization . F. Ostertag, Berlin 1923 (editions of the World Jewish Socialist Association Poale-Zion).
• Realities and possibilities of Palestine . With a foreword by Franz Oppenheimer . E. Laub, Berlin 1931.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Harald Seewann : Circle and Zion Star. Volume 1. Graz 1990, p. 142.