Summary
The Verein zur Förderung der Bodenkultur unter den Juden Deutschlands [Association for the Promotion of Agriculture among Germany’s Jews], founded in Berlin on October 24, 1897, on whose board Franz Oppenheimer sat before his Zionist engagement, in Zionism and Cosmopolitanism: Franz Oppenheimer and the Dream of a Jewish Future in Germany and Palestine (PDF p.113).
Details
- Its report for the business year 1900-1901 gave its main objective as to “start a Jewish farmer colony that will prove how very well-suited German Jews are to pursuing agriculture activities on German land.” (PDF p.113).
- The association supported the Israelitische Erziehungsanstalt at Ahlem, whose gardening school Oppenheimer presented as altering the “Jewish” physique of Ostjuden (PDF p.117).
- Oppenheimer’s activity for the association was totally left out of his memoirs (PDF p.113).
Related pages
Zionism and Cosmopolitanism: Franz Oppenheimer and the Dream of a Jewish Future in Germany and Palestine, Franz Oppenheimer