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No. 2 | Vienna, 10 January 1902. | 6th Year

The Fifth Zionist Congress.

Notice to the Zionist Societies.

In accordance with a resolution of the Congress, all Zionist societies are henceforth obliged to subscribe to the organ of the party, "Die Welt."

This is intended to meet a need often and urgently felt, namely the establishment of a properly organised news service for the whole movement. Thus in the next numbers of this paper there will appear reports and explanations concerning the most important labours of the Congress, and it is of absolute interest to the whole movement that these communications should reach the societies directly.

The obligatory subscription to "Die Welt" on the part of the societies also opens the further possibility of initiating a direct correspondence among the societies themselves, so that every society — a society in the Transvaal or in the Argentine, for example — which wishes in any way to get into touch with Zionist sympathisers in other towns or countries, in order to make known to them opportunities of every kind, will have in "Die Welt" a rallying-point which will bring its suggestions, motions, wishes, news, etc., in the swiftest and surest manner to the knowledge of all fellow Zionists.

It is, however, self-evident that the editors of "Die Welt" can accept for publication only brief and matter-of-fact communications which are officially authenticated, that is to say, which bear the society's stamp, and that all private or anonymous letters must be disregarded.

An Epilogue.

By Architect Oskar Marmorek.

The great French philosopher Descartes, the teacher of Spinoza, concluded from the fact that he thought that he existed: "Cogito, ergo sum."

Varying this conclusion, one might say, in view of this newly created representation of the Jews of the whole world: We come together, therefore we are, we live, and we thereby document our will to go on living. To have thoroughly destroyed the unnatural mimicry of the Jews, their craving to make themselves as little recognisable as possible as a collective body, to have cleared out of the way the untruth of non-community and non-kinship — that is one of the great deeds of the Zionist Congresses.

A thrill runs through every fibre of the whole national body, hitherto seemingly dead; life has come into the remotest limbs, and a strengthening sense of belonging together and a fresh joy of life have seized it. Is not this alone enough to justify the importance of the Congresses?

When quite forgotten members of our people draw near again, like the G'did al Islam in Khorassan; when in South America, in Siberia, in Australia and at the Cape, in Morocco and in Russia, the same thought, the same feeling fills faithful Jewish hearts — is not this alone a new epoch in Judaism?

Is not the creation of a tribune, where the pain and the sorrow of the Jews, who otherwise have no other tribune at their disposal, may be laid before all the world, where their hopes and longings may be honestly and freely uttered — is not this an achievement whose worth and importance should be acknowledged even by those who do not yet understand the aims of the Zionists, do not yet share their faith, and still hold their expectations to be incapable of fulfilment? That this has in fact already come about in many places is a success. The scorn and derision that echoed against our first Congress have little by little fallen silent, vanquished by our purposeful, earnest and unswerving endeavour. That communal board of Munich which scarcely five years ago opposed in the most brusque manner our wish to assemble in that city will before long have to feel this "deed" as an ineffaceable disgrace in its history — if that is not already the case to-day. At all events we have succeeded in winning the respect of the Christian world, as the many philo-Zionist manifes-