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No. 42. | Vienna, 19 October 1900. | Fourth Year

Prize Competition.

Since the first Basle Congress, Zionism has made a veritable career of conquest over the whole world. Yet there are still Jews to whom the tidings of the movement for regeneration within Jewry have not penetrated, while others hold distorted and confused notions of our endeavours. Wherever the apostles of Zionism are able to set forth its aims and its ways, they have always, with all who are willing to be convinced, the success desired. But the possibility of propaganda by the spoken word is not given everywhere. Then the printed word must take its place.

In order to remedy a keenly felt want, the Editorial Office of the "Welt" herewith opens a

Competition

for the obtaining of a generally intelligible and easily comprehensible pamphlet upon Zionism.

The same shall be no larger than one printed sheet (16 octavo pages), and shall set forth with the utmost possible clearness and precision the conception and the aims of the Zionist movement.

Three prizes are to be awarded:

The jury, whose composition will be made known in the next number of this journal, is at liberty, should works of equal merit be forthcoming, to make a different distribution of the prizes, and also — in the event of other successful works being received — to propose their purchase and publication in the "Welt".

Anyone may take part in the competition. The prize essays must be composed in the German language, and are to be submitted, prepaid, to the Editorial Office of the "Welt", in the form necessary for printing (the paper written upon on one side only, and in a distinct hand) and furnished with a motto. An enclosed sealed envelope, bearing the same motto, shall contain the name of the author and his address.

The envelopes will be opened only in the event of a prize being awarded. Works not crowned with a prize will be returned to the sender free of charge.

The prize-winning works become the property of the "Welt", to which alone belongs the right of publication in whatever form it may deem suitable, as also the exclusive right of translation into foreign languages.

As the final term for the delivery of works for the competition, 31 December 1900, 12 o'clock noon, has been fixed. Works arriving later will not be taken into consideration. All further information desired will be most willingly furnished by

for the Editorial Office of the "Welt" Dr. J. W. Marmorek.

Vienna, 15 October 1900.

A Jewish Toynbee Hall in Vienna.

By Leo Rafaels.

It is regrettable for more than one reason that we must employ a new-fangled, foreign-sounding expression for a good, old Jewish, popular conception; but no other word stands at our disposal by which to tell those who know, without long circumlocution, what it is that we want. In the very next weeks we shall open a place which is to offer every Jew, without regard to confessional or political persuasion, the opportunity of finding, free of charge, stimulating company every evening and entertaining instruction several times in the week.

It is not very flattering to us Jews that we must have recourse to a new creation upon a foreign model in order to satisfy a need which exists among no other people in such a degree as among ourselves. The need of sociability and of intellectual stimulation is an immemorial mark of the Jewish character, and at all times, under every sky and in every circumstance, there have been institutions which met that need. The synagogue itself was a centre of mutual understanding and of social levelling, of entertainment