#israel zangwill

[alanshemper]

In 1862's 'Rome and Jerusalem,' perhaps the earliest Zionist text, Moses Hess asked France to "help the Jews to found colonies which may extend from Suez to Jerusalem and from the banks of the Jordan to the coast of the Mediterranean." 2/

In late August 1898, the Second Zionist Congress established the Jewish Colonial Trust, the financial arm of the World Zionist Organization and the first official Zionist bank. In 1902, the Anglo-Palestine Company Ltd. was founded as a subsidiary of the Jewish Colonial Trust. 3/

In 1902, Theodor Herzl, father of political Zionism, begged Cecil Rhodes to support the Zionist project and facilitate Jewish settlement of Palestine. Zionism was in Britain's imperial interest, Herzl suggested, "Because it is something colonial." 4/

Revisionist Zionist leader Vladmir Jabotinsky, who founded and led the Irgun militia, wrote explicitly in his 1923 Zionist manifesto, "The Iron Wall," that "Zionism is a colonization adventure and therefore it stands or it falls by the question of armed force." 5/

Jabotinsky also wrote, "Zionist colonization, even the most restricted, must either be terminated or carried out in defiance of the will of the native population," and that it was "necessary to carry on colonization against the will of the Palestinian Arabs." 6/

One of the leading Zionist organizations supporting the Yishuv (Jewish settlers) in Mandatory Palestine was the Palestine Jewish Colonization Association, established in 1924. (It was originally founded in 1891 as the Jewish Colonization Association.) 7/

The Jewish Agency, formed in 1929 by the 16th Zionist Congress, was (and is still) tasked with increasing Jewish immigration to Palestine. Its fundraising arm originally operated under the auspices of World Zionist Organization's aptly-named "Colonization Department." 8/

On October 5, 1937, David Ben-Gurion - later Israel's first prime minister - sent a letter to his son Amos in which he wrote that "Palestine...contains vast colonization potential which the Arabs neither need nor are qualified (because of their lack of need) to exploit." 9/

In mid-1947, the Jewish Agency presented its position to the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine. It declared "industrial development in Palestine" was "part of...the migration of industry from the old industrial countries to colonial or semi-colonial territories." 10/

During the presentation, Chaim Weizmann-later Israel's 1st president-stated, "As compared with the result of the colonizing activities of other peoples, our impact on the Arabs has not produced very much worse results than what has been produced by others in other countries." 11/

Moshe Shertok-Israel's 2nd prime minister-boasted of Zionism to the UNSCOP, saying "it will not be easy to find an instance in the history of colonization where a large scale settlement scheme has been conducted with so much respect for the interests of existing population." 12/

Clearly, Zionism's colonial nature was explicit from the outset and was leveraged as a selling point to gain European support. When colonialism began to lose legitimacy, the term was retired.

So don't ever claim that "we Zionists never called ourselves colonialists."

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In 1891 leading Zionist thinker Asher Ginsburg (Ahad Ha'am) wrote that "when the life of our people in Palestine will develop to such an extent as to push out, to a small or large extent, the indigenous population of the country, then not easily will they give up their place." 2/

In 1898, Theodor Herzl recognized that, in order to establish a "Jewish state" in Palestine, the inconvenient indigenous population would have to be removed. “We shall try to spirit the penniless [Palestinian Arab] population (i.e. Arab) across the border," he wrote. 3/

Israel Zangwill, British leader of the Jewish Territorialist Organization (ITO), wrote in 1904 of "a difficulty from which the Zionist dare not avert his eyes, though he rarely likes to face it." It was that "Palestine proper has already its inhabitants." 4/

So what was his solution? "We must be prepared...to drive out by the sword the tribes in possession as our forefathers did."

Similarly, Chaim Weizmann referred to Palestinians as "the rocks of Judea, as obstacles that had to be cleared on a difficult path." 5/

his 1926 address to Nat'l Conference of the United Palestine Appeal in Boston, Weizmann said Palestinians "are in the country, and have been there for ages. We are the newcomers and have to become part and parcel of the country. We are planting a new people in the country. 6/

In 1929, early Labor Zionist intellectual Berl Katznelson declared, "Zionist enterprise is an enterprise of conquest," admitting that "it is by no chance that I use military terms when speaking of settlement." 7/

In 1930, Menachem Usshishkin, a powerful early pioneer of Zionism and leading member of the Jewish National Fund, stated, "If there are other inhabitants there [in Palestine], they must be transferred to some other place. We must take over the land." 8/

in 1936, Ussishkin commented, "Now the [Palestinian] Arabs do not want us because we want to be the rulers. I will fight for this. I will make sure that we will be the landlords of this land...because this country belongs to us not to them." 9/

In 1936, another leading Zionist, Arthur Ruppin, who led colonization efforts through the Jewish National Fund, declared, "On every site where we purchase land and where we settle people, the present cultivators will inevitably be dispossessed." 10/

In June 1937, David Ben-Gurion wrote to Jewish Agency head Moshe Shertok, "Were I an Arab...I would rebel even more vigorously, bitterly, and desperately against the immigration that will one day turn Palestine and all its Arab residents over to Jewish rule." 11/

Ben-Gurion told the 20th Zionist Congress in August 1937, "New Jewish settlement will not be possible unless there is a transfer of the Arab peasantry," adding, "Jewish power in the country...will also increase our possibilities to carry out the transfer on a large scale." 12/

At the November 21, 1937 meeting of Jewish Agency's Transfer Committee, Yosef Weitz, Land Department chief at the Jewish National Fund, boasted that "transfer" not only "diminish[es] the Arab population," but also "release[s] it for Jewish inhabitants." 13/

In 1938, Ben-Gurion reaffirmed these sentiments: "Let us not ignore the truth among ourselves. Politically we are the aggressors and they defend themselves. The country is theirs, because they inhabit it, whereas we want to come here and settle down." 14/

At the same time, Ussishkin insisted, "We cannot start the Jewish state with...half the population being Arab...Such a state cannot survive even half an hour." Regarding the forcible ethnic cleansing of over sixty thousand Palestinian families, he added: "It is most moral." 15/

Ruppin agreed: "I do not believe in the transfer of individuals. I believe in the transfer of entire villages." He also wrote, "Land is the most necessary thing for establishing roots in Palestine...We are bound in each case...to remove the peasants who cultivate the land." 16/

Moshe Shertok, Jewish Agency chief and later Israel's second prime minister, said, "We have forgotten that we have not come to an empty land to inherit it, but we have come to conquer a country from people inhabiting it." 17/

On March 20, 1941, the Jewish Agency's Yosef Weitz wrote, "The complete evacuation of the country from its other inhabitants and handing it over to the Jewish people is the answer." 18/

In 1941, Weitzmann told Ivan Maisky, Soviet ambassador to England, that "if half a million Arabs could be transferred, two million Jews could be put in their place. That, of course, would be a first installment; what might happen afterwards [would be] a matter for history." 19/

In a 1941 memorandum entitled "Outlines of the Zionist Policy", Ben-Gurion recognized that "the majority of the Arabs could hardly be expected to leave voluntarily," noting, "Complete transfer without compulsion – and ruthless compulsion, at that – is hardly imaginable." 20/

Founder and longtime president of the World Jewish Congress Nahum Goldmann recalled Ben-Gurion saying in 1956, "Why should the Arabs make peace? If I was an Arab leader I would never make terms with Israel. That is natural: we have taken their country." 21/

In 1969, Moshe Dayan declared, "Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages...There is not a single place built in this country that did not have a former Arab population." 22/

Again, Zionism is a colonial ideology that explicitly relies on the forceful removal of the native population from its homeland. To live in peace with those you have displaced, dispossessed & disenfranchised, you must guarantee equal rights for all. 23/END

[nsantand]

Israel Zangwill - [Um dia, estando entre nós dois o Atlântico]

"[Um dia, estando entre nós dois o Atlântico]", um poema de Israel Zangwill

Um dia, estando entre nós dois o Atlântico,senti a tua mão na minha;Agora, tendo a tua mão na minha,sinto entre nós dois o Atlântico. Trad.: Cecília Meireles REPUBLICAÇÃO: poema publicado na página originalmente em 27/02/2019 Mais do que uma leitura, uma experiência. Clique, compre e contribua para manter a poesia viva em nosso blog

[preparedpublic]

Le New York Times du 04 juin 1911 est exceptionnel à plus d’un titre. D’abord, parce qu’est établie et validée l’origine du mot America, inventé le 25 mars 1507 à St-Dié-des-Vosges (France) par l’érudit Mathias Ringmann (et non par le cartographe Martin Waldseemüller, comme il est écrit partout), dans un livret qui accompagne la carte où ce toponyme apparaît pour la première fois. 

Dans l’article publié en-dessous, l'écrivain anglais Israël Zangwill (1864-1926), un temps proche de Theodor Herzl, évoque son travail de quête d’un territoire sûr pour réunir les populations juives désirant émigrer, après les pogroms européens et russes. Il parle de Galveston au Texas, où 3 000 juifs ont émigré et où il pense qu’un mouvement général se produira une fois passée la barre des 20 000. 

Le hasard réunit sur cette même page, la naissance de l’Amérique et la quête d’un territoire pour les Juifs persécutés.

L'utopie de Herzl devenue réalité après la Shoah, n'a jamais été cette « terre sans peuple » annoncée au XIXème siècle par des voyageurs. Les colons européens ont fait le même constat en arrivant en Amérique. Un même écrasement des autochtones a suivi, selon des méthodes qui semblent assez proches : spoliation, guerre, relégation territoriale.

Cet écrasement connaît un accroissement exponentiel en Israël depuis le pogrom du 07 octobre 2023.

Ce que les États-Unis voient en miroir dans ce pays, c'est leur propre histoire : la Destinée Manifeste des colons protestants ressemble à la réinstallation en terre promise des Juifs. Dans les deux cas, ce sont des terres promises habitées. Et ces habitants n'ont aucune envie d'être la terre promise de qui que ce soit, ce qui est bien naturel.

L' Amérique sait que des engagements forts envers les populations autochtones meurtries doivent être renouvelés et renforcés pour réparer les blessures, restaurer la confiance, construire une coexistence pacifique qui soit égalitaire et juste. Le fait-elle ? Ce n'est qu'à la condition d'un « oui » inconditionnel qu'elle sera utile et contribuera à bâtir, dans une Palestine accablée, un projet de paix.

[msclaritea]

Sabbatean-Frankism as the Paradigm of the Modern Left

February 19, 2019

[Introduction] What do all these influential intellectuals all have in common?

1.Communism (Marx)Sexual

2. depravity (Freud)

3. Corporate Leftism (Bernays)

4. Multiculturalism (Horace Kallen)

5. Deconstructivism/Critical Theory (Walter Benjamin)

6. Frankfurt School (Adorno)

7. Radical jurisprudence (Brandeis, Frankfurter, and Cardozo)

8. Large-scale, non-selective immigration (Israel Zangwill, Emma Lazarus)

They are all linked to Sabbatean-Frankism, a distinct quasi-Satanic schism within Jewry. The extraordinary prevalence of Sabbatean-Frankist influence among top Jewish intellectuals from 1850-1950 makes it statistically impossible to deny its role because of the impossible coincidences.

The Sabbatean-Frankists sought to invert traditional Jewish-Christian values, including the 10 Commandments, restrictions on debauched sexuality, man’s dominion over the environment, etc. Further, given Sabbatean-Frankism’s apocalyptic nature, the modern Left is riven with irrational destructive impulses.

This general thesis has been explored by historians Paul Johnson and Gershom Scholem, but never in such detail. There are several implications of this thesis:

The failures of the contemporary Left do not represent “good faith” secular humanist efforts gone wrong. It is very possible that Freud, Marx, and other Sabbatean-Frankist intellectuals purpose-built their ideas to destroy the West.The US Supreme Court was heavily influenced by Sabbatean-Frankists. Their impact help cause a revolution via court fiat in the 50s-70s that undemocratically imposed decadent/anti-Judeo-Christian (i.e. Frankist) values on the country.Since the Left is fundamentally a quasi-Satanic movement devoted to destroying traditional Judeo-Christian civilization, it is a natural ally with like-minded Islam, despite superficial differences (feminism, gay rights). Islam and the Left will seamlessly cooperate to destroy the West as they cooperated to topple the Shah in the Iranian Revolution.

Any civilization will eventually grow contemptuous of its stern founding virtues. Sabbatean-Frankism’s resonance is part of a cycle where civilizations grow complacent and ultimately self-destructive. 

I'm still learning about all of this stuff, myself, but it IS based on historical evidence. All I know for a fact, right now, are two things:

1. OUR American media is nearly completely owned by Israeli citizens aka wealthy Jewish families and/or corporations also owned by wealthy Jewish families, as is all of Hollywood.

2. THEY are the ones pushing Trump while doing everything possible to dismiss another Biden presidency, which would repeat the history of Hitler. He lost power, then came back, enacting a Holocaust.

Both of these are undeniable facts. MSM wants the United States to burn.

[incorrectlooneytunesquotes]

A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to comprehend his cleverneths, and just sthtupid enough to admire it.

Daffy to Daphne Duck

[ahaura]

Zachary Foster, Ph.d, historian of Palestine, has made a thread of a brief history of Israel's ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from 1890 to present. [His newsletter: Palestine, in Your Inbox] Pasted below:

Yesterday, on October 24, 2023, Israel's plans to expel Gaza's Palestinian population to Sinai, Egypt were leaked. Not surprisingly, this plan has a decades long history and dates to at least 2004, if not earlier. (Source)

Between Oct 7, 2023-present, Israel has displaced ~1.4 million Palestinians in Gaza through its campaign of indiscriminate bombing. (Source)

In May 2023, 178 Palestinian Bedouins were forced out of Ein Samiya (West Bank) after Israel repeatedly demolished their homes, threatened to destroy their only school & after their grazing land was taken by settlement expansion & b/c of settler violence: [Link]

In July 2022, the 100-person community in Ras a-Tin (WB) was pushed after a Jewish settler outpost was established 2km away. Since then, members of the Palestinian community have suffered from verbal abuse, harassment, theft & vandalism of property. [Link]

Between Aug 2022- August 2023, the 88-person community in al-Qabun was pushed out by Israeli Jewish settler violence & assaults by the Israeli army. [Link]

In July 2020, Israel made 70 Palestinians homeless in Khirbet Humsa for the 6th time. Israeli forces loaded the residents' personal belongings and dropped them off 7 miles away. [Link]

In 2019, 2 groups of Palestinian families near the Taybeh junction were pushed out:

Between June 1967 - 2016, Israel revoked the residency status--and thus the right to live in Jerusalem (or anywhere else in Israel) -- of at least 14,595 Palestinians from East Jerusalem in what amounts to "forcible transfers," according to @hrw. (Source)

Between 1968 -1971, Israel expelled 615 Gazan residents. Between, 1971-1988, Israel expelled another 90 Palestinains from Gaza. Source: Sara Roy, The Gaza Strip: The Political Economy of De-development, p.110

In 1967, Israel expelled 250K-325K Palestinians, including from Imwas, Yalo, Bayt Nuba, Surit, Beit Awwa, Beit Mirsem, Shuyukh, Jiftlik, Agarith & Huseirat. (Source: one, two)

In 1948, Zionist forces expelled hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their homes. They also refused to allow ~750,000 Palestinians who were made refugees during the war back to their homes.

Source:

B/w 1891-1948, most Zionist leaders, inc. Theodor Herzl, Ahad Ha'am, Israel Zangwill, Arthur Rupin, M. Smilansky, L. Motzkin, Yoseph Weitz, Chaim Weizmann, M. Usshishkin, D. Ben Gurion, Moshe Shertok, thought it would be required to expel the Palestinians: [Quote Tweet]

Here are some additional screenshots if the statements of Zionist leaders from 1890-1948. And you wonder why so many people think Zionism was such a problematic, dare I say, racist idea?

[probablyasocialecologist]

Proposals to physically transfer Palestinians out of the country have a long history in Zionism. Theodor Herzl confided in his diaries: “We shall try to spirit the penniless population across the border by procuring employment for it in the transit countries, while denying it employment in our own country.” Israel Zangwill, the Jewish writer who coined the phrase “A land without a people,” complained that Palestine is not so much occupied by the Arabs as overrun by them.” Invoking the Boer’s Great Trek in South Africa, he proposed that “we must greatly persuade [the Arabs] to ‘trek’. After all, they have all Arabia with its million square miles – not to mention the vast new area freed from the Turk between Syria and Mesopotamia – and Israel has not a square inch.” If they “fold their tents” and “silently steal away,” he felt sure that the Jews would be prepared to pay their travelling expenses. Ben-Gurion, the architect of the Nakba, had long advocated for “compulsory transfer.” In 1937, he established a Committee on Population Transfer within the Jewish Agency. And, of course, transfer, a euphemism for ethnic cleansing, was in fact carried out at a mass level in 1948 and again in 1967. One of its most notorious perpetrators, Yosef Weitz, the Director of the Jewish National Fund’s Land Settlement Department, wrote: 'It must be clear that there is no room in the country for both peoples … The only solution is a Land of Israel without Arabs…. There is no way but to transfer the Arabs from here to the neighbouring countries, to transfer all of them, perhaps with the exception of Bethlehem, Nazareth and the old Jerusalem. Not one village must be left, not one tribe.'

Jeff Halper, Decolonizing Israel, Liberating Palestine: Zionism, Settler Colonialism, and the Case for One Democratic State

[drivenbycheese]

davidmalki:

source: Israel Zangwill, Without Prejudice, 1899. This description, at the time meant to be as absurd a set of charges and demands as could be placed in a straw woman’s mouth, today reads like a beautiful manifesto.

[azamansource]

ASSAD ZAMAN as Rohit in The Saint Of Southall (2020), dir. Isher Sahota

Written and directed by Sahota, based on a short story by Israel Zangwill. Aleena and Rohit, played by Mona Goodwin and Assad Zaman, are a young couple living in a shared house in Southall, West London. Living with Kulwinder (Kulwant Sahota), her wheelchair-bound grandson Amar (Jahan Anand), and Tejinder (Bhasker Patel), amongst others, it’s Tejinder who believes he has seen a divine apparition whilst out on a walk. Coinciding with the religious festival Vaisakhi, upon hearing about the vision, Kulwinder is adamant that the resonance of the sighting on such a holy day will heal her grandson. But has there simply been a misunderstanding?

[scriptwriters-network]

The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.

- Israel Zangwill

[thebeautifulbook]

THE MANTLE OF ELIJAH by Israel Zangwill. (New York/London: Harper, 1901). Illustrated by Lewis Loeb.

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[spookyabuki]

[Israel] Zangwill’s more public stance can be seen in the publication of his book, The Voice of Jerusalem, in 1920. There, he advocated an “Arab exodus” that would be based on “race redistribution” or a “trek like that of the Boers from Cape Colony,” which he advocated as “literally the only ‘way out’ of the difficulty of creating a Jewish State in Palestine.”

—Nur Masalha, from Expulsion of the Palestinians: The Concept of "Transfer" in Zionist Political Thought, 1882-1948

[transitranger327]

I’m always reminded of the xkcd comic whenever people complain about “kids these days” or “the older days were better”

The art of letter-writing is fast dying out. When a letter cost nine pence, it seemed but fair to try to make it worth nine pence…Now, however, we think we are too busy for such old-fashioned correspondence. We fire off a multitude of rapid and short notes, instead of sitting down to have a good talk over a real sheet of paper. The Sunday Magazine, 1871

It is, unfortunately, one of the chief characteristics of modern business to be always in a hurry. In olden times it was different. The Medical Record, 1884

With the advent of cheap newspapers and superior means of locomotion…The dreamy quiet old days are over…For men now live think and work at express speed. They have their Mercury or Post laid on their breakfast table in the early morning, and if they are too hurried to snatch from it the news during that meal, they carry it off, to be sulkily read as they travel…leaving them no time to talk with the friend who may share the compartment with them…The hurry and bustle of modern life…lacks the quiet and repose of the period when our forefathers, the day's work done, took their ease… William Smith, Morley: Ancient and Modern, 1886

Conversation is said to be a lost art…Good talk presupposes leisure, both for preparation and enjoyment. The age of leisure is dead, and the art of conversation is dying. Frank Leslie's popular Monthly, Volume 29, 1890

Intellectual laziness and the hurry of the age have produced a craving for literary nips. The torpid brain…has grown too weak for sustained thought. There never was an age in which so many people were able to write badly. Israel Zangwill, The Bachelors' Club, 1891

The art of pure line engraving is dying out. We live at too fast a rate to allow for the preparation of such plates as our fathers appreciated. If a picture catches the public fancy, the public must have an etched or a photogravured copy of it within a month or two of its appearance, the days when engravers were wont to spend two or three years over a single plate are for ever gone. Journal of the Institute of Jamaica, Volume 1, 1892

So much is exhibited to the eye that nothing is left to the imagination. It sometimes seems almost possible that the modern world might be choked by its own riches, and human faculty dwindle away amid the million inventions that have been introduced to render its exercise unnecessary. The articles in the Quarterlies extend to thirty or more pages, but thirty pages is now too much so we witness a further condensing process and, we have the Fortnightly and the Contemporary which reduce thirty pages to fifteen pages so that you may read a larger number of articles in a shorter time and in a shorter form. As if this last condensing process were not enough the condensed articles of these periodicals are further condensed by the daily papers, which will give you a summary of the summary of all that has been written about everything. Those who are dipping into so many subjects and gathering information in a summary and superficial form lose the habit of settling down to great works. Ephemeral literature is driving out the great classics of the present and the past…hurried reading can never be good reading. G. J. Goschen, First Annual Address to the Students, Toynbee Hall. London, 1894

The existence of mental and nervous degeneration among a growing class of people, especially in large cities, is an obvious phenomenon…the mania for stimulants…diseases of the mind are almost as numerous as the diseases of the body…This intellectual condition is characterized by a brain incapable of normal working…in a large measure due to the hurry and excitement of modern life, with its facilities for rapid locomotion and almost instantaneous communication between remote points of the globe… The Churchman, Volume 71, 1895

If we teach the children how to play and encourage them in their sports…instead of shutting them in badly ventilated schoolrooms, the next generation will be more joyous and will be healthier than the present one. Public Opinion: A Comprehensive Summary of the Press Throughout the World, Volume 18, 1895

The cause of the…increase in nervous disease is increased demand made by the conditions of modern life upon the brain. Everything is done in a hurry. We talk across a continent, telegraph across an ocean, take a trip to Chicago for an hour's talk…We take even our pleasures sadly and make a task of our play…what wonder if the pressure is almost more than our nerves can bear. G. Shrady (from P.C. Knapp) "Are nervous diseases increasing?" Medical Record, 1896

The managers of sensational newspapers…do not try to educate their readers and make them better, but tend to create perverted tastes and develop vicious tendencies. The owners of these papers seem to have but one purpose, and that is to increase their circulation. Medical Brief, Volume 26, 1898

To take sufficient time for our meals seems frequently impossible on account of the demands on our time made by our business…We act on the apparent belief that all of our business is so pressing that we must jump on the quickest car home, eat our dinner in the most hurried way, make the closest connection for a car returning… Louis John Rettger. Studies in Advanced Physiology, 1898

In these days of increasing rapid artificial locomotion, may I be permitted to say a word in favour of a very worthy and valuable old friend of mine, Mr. Long Walk?I am afraid that this good gentleman is in danger of getting neglected, if not forgotten. We live in days of water trips and land trips, excursions by sea, road and rail-bicycles and tricycles, tram cars and motor cars…but in my humble opinion, good honest walking exercise for health beats all other kinds of locomotion into a cocked hat. T. Thatcher, "A plea for a long walk", The Publishers Circular, 1902

The art of conversation is almost a lost one. People talk as they ride bicycles–at a rush–without pausing to consider their surroundings…what has been generally understood as cultured society is rapidly deteriorating into baseness and voluntary ignorance. The profession of letters is so little understood, and so far from being seriously appreciated, that…Newspapers are full, not of thoughtful honestly expressed public opinion on the affairs of the nation, but of vapid personalities interesting to none save gossips and busy bodies. Marie Corelli, Free opinions, freely expressed, 1905

There is a great tendency among the children of today to rebel against restraint, not only that placed upon them by the will of the parent. But against any restraint or limitation of what they consider their rights…this fact has filled well minded people with great apprehensions for the future. Rev. Henry Hussmann, The authority of parents, 1906

Our modern family gathering, silent around the fire, each individual with his head buried in his favourite magazine, is the somewhat natural outcome of the banishment of colloquy from the school… The Journal of Education, Volume 29, 1907

Plays in theatres at the present time present spectacles and deal openly with situations which no person would have dared to mention in general society forty years ago…The current representations of nude men and women in the daily journals and the illustrated magazines would have excluded such periodicals from all respectable families two decades ago…Those who have been divorced…forty and fifty years ago lost at once and irrevocably their standing in society, while to-day they continue in all their social relationships, hardly changed… Editorial, The Watchman, Boston, 1908

We write millions more letters than did our grandfathers, but the increase in volume has brought with it an automatic artificial machine-like ring…an examination of a file of old letters reveals not only a remarkable grasp of details. But a fitness and courtliness too often totally lacking in the mechanical curt cut and dried letters of to-day. Forrest Crissey, Handbook of Modern Business Correspondence, 1908

A hundred years ago it took so long and cost so much to send a letter that it seemed worth while to put some time and thought into writing it. Now the quickness and the cheapness of the post seem to justify the feeling that a brief letter to-day may be followed by another next week–a "line" now by another to-morrow. Percy Holmes Boynton, Principles of Composition, 1915

[from the Alt Text] Unfortunately, the notion of marriage which prevails…at the present time…regards the institution as simply a convenient arrangement or formal contract…This disregard of the sanctity of marriage and contempt for its restrictions is one of the most alarming tendencies of the present age. John Harvey Kellogg, Ladies' guide in health and disease, 1883

"gen alpha is so cooked they don't use cds" is the new "gen z don't know what a vhs is" which is the new "millennials don't know what a rotary phone is" which is the new "gen x don't listen to the radio enough fuck television" which is the new "boomers listen to the radio too much read a book" which is the new "generation ???? read too much go work in the factories" which is the new "generation ???????? work in the factories too much go work in the fields" which is the new "kids should stop working in the fields and start hunting their food" which is the new "grug baby stupid. grug baby eat rocks. grug throw baby away"

[oneofusnet]

Screener Squad: Brothers BROTHERS MOVIE REVIEW Israel Zangwill once said “It takes two men to make one brother”. Step aside Gyllenhaal and Maguire. Retire and move on Devito and Schwarzenegger. This time around the actors playing siblings are Josh Brolin and Peter Dinklage in a film directed by Max Barbakow and written by Etan Cohen and Macon Blair, Brothers. As children, twin brothers Moke and Jady watched their mother put pedal to the metal and speed out of their lives followed by a dozen cop cars blaring their sirens and flashing their colours. The two grew up looking out for each other as… Read More »Screener Squad: Brothers read more on One of Us

[astra-and-lilith]

Sätze, die mich zum Nachdenken bringen

Die Idee des Schmelztiegels war nicht in Amerika entstanden, sondern wurde in England von dem Essayisten und Dramatiker Israel Zangwil entworfen, der von den gleichen intellektuellen Voraussetzungen wie Theodor Herzl ausging, als dieser seine Version des Zionismus entwarf. Als Herzl 1896 seinen Judenstaat schrieb, hatte er die Juden vor die Wahl zwischen Assimilation oder einer nationalen Existenz in Palästina gestellt: die Juden sollten sich reorganisieren, sich "normalisieren" und ebenso werden "wie jeder andere". 

1914 übernahm Zangwil diese Ansicht in einem Nachwort zu seinem Drama  "Der Schmelztiegel", das sechs Jahre zuvor uraufgeführt worden war. Hauptinhalt des Stückes war Zangwils Plädoyer für die Mischehe zwischen Juden und Christen als eine Möglichkeit, selbst die größten Unterschiede zwischen Amerikanern zu beseitigen. Am Ende des Stückes sagt der jüdische Held zu seiner christlichen Frau, dass er die Neue Welt großartiger als sogar Rom oder Jerusalem finde, denn Amerika "ist der Ort, zu dem alle kommen, um zu arbeiten und sich zu freuen".

Zitat aus: Arthur Hertzberg, Shalom Amerika! Die Geschichte der Juden in der Neuen Welt - Siehe dazu auch diverse Boards der Lernumgebung des Zug der Zeit mit Anmerkungen und Bild-Dateien zum Reformjudentum, das sich in der neuen Bauweise der Tempel und Synagogen - am mehrheitlich protestantischen Amerika zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts orientierte.

[weimarhaus]

Rahel Szalit-Marcus, "The Street Sneezes," from "Motl, Peysi the Cantor’s Son," 1922.

(Lithograph; 13 x 11-1/2 in.[33 x 29.2 cm.])

Before 1924, Szalit-Marcus completed illustrations to works by Sholem Aleichem, Martin Buber, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Heinrich Heine, Mendele Moykher Sforim, and Israel Zangwill.