Summary
An Austrian Po’alei Tziyon delegate and Zionist historiographer whom Peretz calls the most profound disciple of Franz Oppenheimer among Zionist settlement activists (Zionism and Cosmopolitanism: Franz Oppenheimer and the Dream of a Jewish Future in Germany and Palestine, PDF p.245).
Details
- At the Eighth Zionist Congress in The Hague in 1907, Böhm spoke on the importance of creating a class of sedentary Jewish agricultural labourers, for which Oppenheimer’s settlement cooperative was most suitable (PDF p.245).
- In the first volume of his history of the Zionist movement, Böhm defended the installation of a technocratic administration in the first phase of Oppenheimer’s cooperative model, described the Moshav Ovdim as resembling its second phase of worker independence, and ascribed to Oppenheimer authorship of the theory that the national character of a land is determined by its farmers and not the manor owners (PDF p.245).
Related pages
Zionism and Cosmopolitanism: Franz Oppenheimer and the Dream of a Jewish Future in Germany and Palestine, Franz Oppenheimer, Po’alei Tziyon, Merhavia