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The
raising of the Jewish people and its self-consciousness.
The
Zionist societies are everywhere engaged in providing facilities for their
members, and the mass of the Jews, to become especially acquainted with
the history of their people and intimate with the sacred and profane
literature in the Hebrew language. They teach the Jews to carry the head
high, to be proud of their descent, and to scorn the lies, calumnies, and
insults of anti-Semites. They endeavor to bring about an improvement in
the hygiene of the Jewish proletariat, to raise its economic condition by
means of association and solidarity, and to secure the salutary training
of children and the education of women. They give young students an aim to
strive for and an ideal in life. They preach the abandonment of gross
materialism, into which assimilated Jews sink only too easily for want of
a worthy ideal in life. They found gymnastic societies in order to promote
the physical development of the rising generation, which has long been
neglected. They give a new impulse to the celebration of Jewish historical
festivals and days of memorial. They even make themselves outwardly
distinguishable in many cases by badges. The Zionist holds it to be
contemptible to conceal his nationality. He insists on being known as a
Jew, and as he always acts naturally, indulges in no aping comedy,
deceives nobody about his descent and his characteristics, obtrudes
himself before nobody under a false flag, his relations with his Christian
neighbors and compatriots are healthier, truer, more honest and honorable,
than those of the assimilated Jews, who endeavor with wearisome but futile
efforts-painful to every Christian of any refinement-to conceal their
Judaism.
"4. To obtain the sanction of governments necessary for
carrying out the object of Zionism."
The
diplomatic work.
Certain
of the Great Powers have received authoritative information concerning the
aims of Zionism by means of official memoranda. There has been no lack of
encouragement from highly important sources, or of expressions of sympathy
with the endeavors of Zionism.