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No. 32. | Vienna, 7th August 1903 — 14th Ab 5663. | 7th Year

To Our Esteemed Subscribers!

During the Congress a special daily edition of "Die Welt" will appear in Basle, which will publish the proceedings of the Congress in comprehensive fashion. By means of this special edition, which will be delivered to our subscribers daily free of charge, we wish to inform them of the Congress proceedings at once and on authentic authority.

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To Our Friends and Fellow Zionists.

Our special edition, appearing daily during the Congress, and its free delivery to our subscribers have been greeted on all sides with great pleasure.

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The Administration of "Die Welt".

Kadimah.

By W. Schabotinsky. Authorised translation by A. Benjamin.

How may this word, with its double meaning of "forward" and "eastward," have come into being? The psychological process by which this twofold word arose probably ran somewhat as follows: all that lives strives towards the light; hence the sacred significance of the East, where the light comes into the world; hence, too, the face of those who pray is turned towards the East; the altars in the temples look eastward; the mind gradually grows accustomed to having the East always before it in all the solemn, religious moments of human life; and so the two notions fuse in the word Kadimah, and we obtain a fine, deep expression that seems as if made for a symbol and a device.

And indeed this word must become the true device of Zionism. Are not the two notions — "eastward," as the watchword of the exodus, and "forward," as the watchword of progress — indissolubly fused for us? We wish to go eastward in order to be able to move forward more freely, keeping step with all the nations, and if possible even ahead of others. Far from the East there is no progress for us; far from the East decay and national death await us; "eastward" and "forward" are for us one and the same, and neither can be realised without the other. In our movement these two notions are welded together as firmly as they are fused in the word Kadimah.

But some would dispute our right to this device. They say to us:

"Your movement did not spring from any positive aspiration; it was called forth by antisemitism. Because the Jews lead a hard life in the Diaspora, you wish to lead them away to Palestine. Consequently you have by no means undertaken the whole thing with the intention of creating a new home for culture. Your aim is negative, not positive: a flight, but no striving forward. What you need above all is a refuge, a shelter, a fortress that shall protect you from malice, but not a place of creation for the production of what is new and valuable. You are driven by the feeling of pity, not by the creative impulse. Choose what device you will: 'Pity,' 'Defence' — but only not 'Forward.' Flight was never a movement forward."