Summary
The Zionist current, in Zionism and Cosmopolitanism: Franz Oppenheimer and the Dream of a Jewish Future in Germany and Palestine, that sought territories for Jewish colonization outside Palestine without opposing settlement in Palestine — the camp to which Franz Oppenheimer counted himself, and whose vanquished adherents founded the ITO in 1905 after the Seventh Zionist Congress refocused on Palestine (PDF p.145).
Details
- Oppenheimer regarded Palestine as the best place to begin settlement, for its magnetic pull and its geographic location and economic potential, yet held Jewish colonization should not be restricted to Palestine alone (PDF p.145).
- Oppenheimer lamented the ITO secession as a victory for national romantics of an Eastern European creed, weakening the influence of Western Jews and Russian advocates of a social utopian ideal (PDF p.145).
- The brief moment after the “Uganda Congress” when endorsement of settlement outside Palestine was not taboo is Peretz’s explanation for the journal name Altneuland and for the CEP as a parallel institution to the East Africa Commission (PDF p.145).
Related pages
Zionism and Cosmopolitanism: Franz Oppenheimer and the Dream of a Jewish Future in Germany and Palestine, Franz Oppenheimer, Israel Zangwill, Greater Palestine