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No. 16. | Vienna, 19th April 1901. | Fifth Year

Pamphlet Competition of the "Welt".

Some thirty competitors took part in the prize competition of the "Welt".

Unfortunately, the examination of the pamphlets sent in has shown that not a single one of them could be awarded any of the three prizes. Although many of the pamphlets had been worked out with much expert knowledge and great diligence, they could nevertheless not be taken into consideration, because all of them without exception lacked the popular tone, the liveliness and freshness of presentation, and the brevity of diction.

The Redaction of the "Welt" therefore finds itself moved to renew the prize competition upon the former conditions, set forth below, and fixes the 15th of June 1901 as the closing date for the sending in of manuscripts. The pamphlet 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 come to distribution:

a 1st prize to the amount of 200.— Frcs. in gold, „ 2nd „ „ „ „ 100.— „ „ „ „ 3rd „ „ „ „ 50.— „ „ „

The board of adjudication is at liberty, should works of equal merit be forthcoming, to undertake another distribution of the prizes, but also — in case still other successful works should come in — to propose their purchase and publication in the "Welt".

Everyone may take part in the competition. The prize essays must be composed in the German language or in Jargon, and are to be submitted, post-paid, to the Redaction of the "Welt" in the form necessary for printing (the paper written upon on one side only, and a legible hand), provided 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 case of an award. Works not crowned with a prize will be returned franco to the sender.

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

Vienna, the 15th April 1901.

For the Redaction: Berthold Feiwel.

The Jewish Physicians and Zionism.

By Dr. Siegmund Kornfeld.

However widely opinions concerning the aims and the ways of Zionism may diverge, upon this there can be no dispute: that the regeneration of the Jewish people, the strengthening and elevation of the body of the people, must form one of our most important tasks — nay, the indispensable precondition for the attainment of our final aims. Manifold as the Jewish sorrow is, its saddest side is assuredly the enduring consequences of the unfavourable conditions of life which have worked upon a long series of generations. It cannot be denied that the pressure, lasting through centuries and perhaps without example, under which the Jewish people has had to suffer, has left deep traces behind it; and one will not be permitted to wonder at the existence of such traces, but rather at this, that the baleful effects of that pressure are not far graver. In general these sad consequences may be described as a lowering of the power of resistance against the injurious influences which work from without; and if one would bring about a change in the situation of the Jewish people, one may deceive oneself neither as to the fact itself nor as to its extent and importance. It is above all things needful to keep the eyes open and to apprehend the reality unfalsified and in its full compass. The right and exact knowledge of an evil is the indispensable presupposition for the success of all purposeful endeavours directed to its removal. From this point of view alone there follows the necessity of the co-operation of the Jewish physicians in the great work of the redemption of the Jewish people from shame and distress.