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No. 45. | Vienna, 9 November 1900. | Fourth Year

Manufacturers, Tradesmen, Technicians!

In order to procure bread and work for the 400 Jewish workmen in Palestine who are without employment, the founding of industrial and manufacturing undertakings in Palestine (factory work and household work) is planned. What is in question is above all the production of such articles as are in part urgently needed in Palestine itself and could therefore be placed there, and in part can be won from the raw materials existing in the country and brought to export. In the first line there come into consideration: tanneries, spinning mills, clothing, washing-soap, paper, match, cement, machine, textile and chemical factories, and further basket-weaving works (household industry).

To those undertakers who bind themselves to draw the labour force for the works to be opened from the ranks of the Palestinian workmen, and who stand surety for a suitable wage and a just treatment of these workmen, a corresponding credit and a sufficient subvention in ready money will be procured.

All further information is given by The Secretariat of the Congress Bureau, Vienna, IX., Türkenstrasse 9.

The Consequence.

By Eli Samgar (Berlin).

This year's October number of the "Preussische Jahrbücher", which are carried on in the politically non-partisan, purely national spirit of Treitschke, brings an essay upon the Jewish question which not only excites great attention in all quarters, but which also — and this is incomparably more fateful — is in a position to work a dangerous confusion in the Jewish circles of property and education throughout the German-speaking region. There is no question that the present editor of that journal, Professor Delbrück, is entirely right when he says of the essay: "The whole exposition is so interesting, psychologically as well as culturally, the mood that declares itself in it so important and significant a symptom, the drawing of the situation, if not in every detail, yet in its main lines so correctly and vigorously carried through, that not only will our readers take cognisance of it with interest, but I may also give myself over to the hope that the 'Preuss. Jahrb.' will earn a merit by the publication."

Not a word of this characterisation is too much. Benedictus Levita's essay "The Redemption of Judaism" is no exercise in style, not even in the best sense. In every word one perceives that years were needed before it crystallised itself out of the surge of generally uneasy moods. Like squared stones the sentences are fitted one to another. What brings this self-liberation of a serene, dispassionate man so near to us Zionists in particular, and what ought to determine every one of our friends to occupy himself more intimately with this confession of a German Jew — it is this: here the final reckoning for the hundred years' work of devastation by German rabbis is drawn up in cold, taut, pregnant words. The seed which they scattered in stupidity, malice or blindness has come up in terrifying fashion.

Levita knows German Jewry: "That the relation of Judaism to Germanism is an unsatisfactory one is acknowledged on all hands. There is something half-hearted, something without principle in it." The fusing of the Jews into Germanism can only really be accomplished when the Jewish confession also falls. Levita is