Summary
The ideologue of the Second Aliya group, in Shtetl Colonialism: First and Last Impressions of Indigeneity by Colonised Colonisers, whose 1945 account of his own longing for the Yishmaelite, already known by him to be hopeless, instances the disappointment built into the settlers’ first impressions (Shtetl Colonialism: First and Last Impressions of Indigeneity by Colonised Colonisers, PDF p.15 / printed p.53).
Details
- In 1945 Katznelson reported that despite his benign proclivities, as he reported them, he was more extreme than Brit Shalom and a philosemite and his longing for the Yishmaelite was immense; he already knew this was hopeless when he met for the first time unfriendly Turks back home in Russia (PDF p.15).
- Cited in note 35: ‘On My Way to the Homeland’, in The Book of the Second Aliya, p.69, the surname spelled Katzanelson in the note as printed (PDF p.20 / printed p.58).
Related pages
Shtetl Colonialism: First and Last Impressions of Indigeneity by Colonised Colonisers, Second Aliya, Brit Shalom