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== Quotes ==

== Quotes by leaders ==

* Shall we, with our inheritance, do less than the Irish, the Serbians, or the Bulgars? And must we not, like them, have a land where the Jewish life may be naturally led, the Jewish language spoken, and the Jewish spirit prevail?

** [[zionism-israel:bio/Louis_Brandeis.htm|Louis D. Brandeis]], ''[https://www.gutenberg.org/files/22300/22300-h/22300-h.htm A Call to the Educated Jew]'', 1916.

=== What Zionism is ===

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* Zionism is not a mere national or chauvinistic caprice, but the last desperate stand of the Jews against annihilation.

** [[zionism-israel:bio/Arthur_Ruppin.htm|Arthur Ruppin]], ''[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.75938 The Jews of Today]'', 1913, p. 300

* The ultimate aim of the Zionists is to liberate the Jewish people from the peculiar psychological complex induced by the penalization to which they have been subject for centuries in the Gentile world.

**[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Arnold-J-Toynbee Arnold J. Toynbee], ''A Study of History'', 1934, ii. 252.

* Zionism is the affirmation of our personality. We have faith in ourselves, our spirit, our destiny to be worthy of our past.

**[https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/lazare-bernard Bernard Lazare], ''Le Nationalisme Juif'', 1898. Quoted in N. Sokolow. ''History of Zionism'', 1919. i. 293.

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* If we wish that the name Israel be not extinguished, then we are in duty bound to create something which may serve as a center for our entire people, like the heart in an organism, from which the blood will stream into all the arteries of the national body and fill it with life.

** [[Eliezer Ben-Yehuda]] in “[https://benyehuda.org/read/257 A Burning Question].”

*Only when the day comes that we all speak one language — then we shall be one people.

** [[Eliezer Ben-Yehuda]] in ''HaTzvi'', 10 February 1888, “[https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/?a=d&d=hzv18880210-01.2.2 The Chronicles of the Week]”

* The rebirth of Israel’s national consciousness and the revival of Judaism are inseparable. When Israel found itself, it found its God. When Israel lost itself, or began to work at its self-effacement, it was sure to deny its God.

**[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Solomon-Schechter Solomon Schechter], 1906. Quoted in J. H. Hertz. ''A Book of Jewish Thoughts''. 116f.

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*We come to Zion only by way of Zion.

**[~~https~~://~~plato~~.~~stanford.edu/entries/buber/~~ Martin Buber], ''Zion als Ziel und Aujgabe'', 1936.

**[[zionism-israel:/bio/Martin_Buber.htm|Martin Buber]], ''Zion als Ziel und Aujgabe'', 1936.

*Political Zionism is problematic for obvious reasons. But I can never forget what it achieved as a moral force in an era of complete dissolution. It helped to stem the tide of ‘progressive’ leveling of venerable, ancestral differences; it fulfilled a conservative function.

** [https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/strauss-leo/ Leo Strauss], ''Jewish Philosophy and the Crisis of Modernity: Essays and Lectures in Modern Jewish Thought'', 1997, State University of New York Press, pp. 413–14.

==Other notables==

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*Before, or at least along with, the redemption of the soil there must be also the redemption of the soul.

**[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Judah-Leib-Gordon Judah Leib Gordon], letter to S. Bernfeld, Jan. 31, 1888. ''[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=ien.35556039672548 Igrot, ii]''. p. 248.

*Political Zionism is problematic for obvious reasons. But I can never forget what it achieved as a moral force in an era of complete dissolution. It helped to stem the tide of ‘progressive’ leveling of venerable, ancestral differences; it fulfilled a conservative function.

** [https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/strauss-leo/ Leo Strauss], ''Jewish Philosophy and the Crisis of Modernity: Essays and Lectures in Modern Jewish Thought'', 1997, State University of New York Press, pp. 413–14.

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-== Quotes ==
+== Quotes by leaders ==
+* Shall we, with our inheritance, do less than the Irish, the Serbians, or the Bulgars? And must we not, like them, have a land where the Jewish life may be naturally led, the Jewish language spoken, and the Jewish spirit prevail?
+** [[zionism-israel:bio/Louis_Brandeis.htm|Louis D. Brandeis]], ''[https://www.gutenberg.org/files/22300/22300-h/22300-h.htm A Call to the Educated Jew]'', 1916.
 === What Zionism is ===
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 * Zionism is not a mere national or chauvinistic caprice, but the last desperate stand of the Jews against annihilation.
 ** [[zionism-israel:bio/Arthur_Ruppin.htm|Arthur Ruppin]], ''[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.75938 The Jews of Today]'', 1913, p. 300
-* The ultimate aim of the Zionists is to liberate the Jewish people from the peculiar psychological complex induced by the penalization to which they have been subject for centuries in the Gentile world.
-**[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Arnold-J-Toynbee Arnold J. Toynbee], ''A Study of History'', 1934, ii. 252.
 * Zionism is the affirmation of our personality. We have faith in ourselves, our spirit, our destiny to be worthy of our past.
 **[https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/lazare-bernard Bernard Lazare], ''Le Nationalisme Juif'', 1898. Quoted in N. Sokolow. ''History of Zionism'', 1919. i. 293.
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 * If we wish that the name Israel be not extinguished, then we are in duty bound to create something which may serve as a center for our entire people, like the heart in an organism, from which the blood will stream into all the arteries of the national body and fill it with life.
 ** [[Eliezer Ben-Yehuda]] in “[https://benyehuda.org/read/257 A Burning Question].”
+*Only when the day comes that we all speak one language — then we shall be one people.
+** [[Eliezer Ben-Yehuda]] in ''HaTzvi'', 10 February 1888, “[https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/?a=d&d=hzv18880210-01.2.2 The Chronicles of the Week]”
 * The rebirth of Israel’s national consciousness and the revival of Judaism are inseparable. When Israel found itself, it found its God. When Israel lost itself, or began to work at its self-effacement, it was sure to deny its God.
 **[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Solomon-Schechter Solomon Schechter], 1906. Quoted in J. H. Hertz. ''A Book of Jewish Thoughts''. 116f.
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 *We come to Zion only by way of Zion.
-**[https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/buber/ Martin Buber], ''Zion als Ziel und Aujgabe'', 1936.
+**[[zionism-israel:/bio/Martin_Buber.htm|Martin Buber]], ''Zion als Ziel und Aujgabe'', 1936.
-*Political Zionism is problematic for obvious reasons. But I can never forget what it achieved as a moral force in an era of complete dissolution. It helped to stem the tide of ‘progressive’ leveling of venerable, ancestral differences; it fulfilled a conservative function.
-** [https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/strauss-leo/ Leo Strauss], ''Jewish Philosophy and the Crisis of Modernity: Essays and Lectures in Modern Jewish Thought'', 1997, State University of New York Press, pp. 413–14.
 ==Other notables==
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 *Before, or at least along with, the redemption of the soil there must be also the redemption of the soul.
 **[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Judah-Leib-Gordon Judah Leib Gordon], letter to S. Bernfeld, Jan. 31, 1888. ''[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=ien.35556039672548 Igrot, ii]''. p. 248.
+*Political Zionism is problematic for obvious reasons. But I can never forget what it achieved as a moral force in an era of complete dissolution. It helped to stem the tide of ‘progressive’ leveling of venerable, ancestral differences; it fulfilled a conservative function.
+** [https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/strauss-leo/ Leo Strauss], ''Jewish Philosophy and the Crisis of Modernity: Essays and Lectures in Modern Jewish Thought'', 1997, State University of New York Press, pp. 413–14.
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