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No. 35. | Vienna, 30 August 1901. | Fifth Year

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The Fifth Zionist Congress.

The Actions Committee has convened the Fifth Congress at Basle for the days from the 26th to the 29th of December 1901, with the following order of business:

I. Day (Thursday):

A. Morning sitting, 10 o'clock:

I. 1. Opening of the Congress by the President of the Actions Committee. II. 2. Election of the Credentials Committee, of the Congress Bureau, and of the remaining committees. III. 3. Standing orders. IV. 4. Report of the Actions Committee: a) General part, b) Treasurer's report.

B. Afternoon sitting, 4 o'clock:

V. Discussion upon the report.

II. Day (Friday):

A. Morning sitting, 10 o'clock:

VI. Questions of the physical, intellectual and economic raising of the Jews: General Rapporteur: Dr. Max Nordau. a) General part, b) Special part:

1. of the physical raising.
2. of the intellectual raising: α) Jewish history, literature and language, β) Jewish art, γ) Jewish science, δ) Popular instruction and popular education.
3. of the economic raising.

The discussion following upon the reports will on this day be continued without pause until 3 o'clock in the afternoon.

III. Day (Saturday):

Evening sitting. Beginning 6 o'clock:

VII. Organisation. (Reports and discussion.)

IV. Day (Sunday):

A. Morning sitting, 10 o'clock:

VIII. 1. National Fund. IX. 2. The Jewish Colonial Bank.

B. Afternoon sitting, 4 o'clock:

X. 1. Report of the standing committees. XI. 2. Elections of the Actions Committee and of the commissions. XII. 3. Motions of initiative and miscellaneous business.

The names of the several rapporteurs will be announced later.