Summary
The biweekly journal of the Komitee für den Osten, published between the fall of 1916 and the spring of 1920 as an “open floor for anyone”, in which Peretz finds the strains of Altneuland (journal) continued — Jewish and German national interests linked within an imperial framework (Zionism and Cosmopolitanism: Franz Oppenheimer and the Dream of a Jewish Future in Germany and Palestine, PDF p.271).
Details
- It was edited by first-generation Zionists and leaders of the Liberal Jewish establishment: Franz Oppenheimer, Friedemann, Eugen Fuchs, Alexander Eliasberg and the anti-Zionist philosopher Hermann Cohen (PDF p.271).
- Oppenheimer’s articles and his column “Soziologische Tagebuchblätter” addressed race, antisemitism, Jewish capabilities to farm and the settlement of Palestine, and his sociological principles’ relevance to wartime events (PDF p.271).
- The German government’s declaration of January 5, 1918 was printed in its entirety in the journal, the KfdO’s mouthpiece, with Oppenheimer’s commentary “Die Erklärung der Reichsregierung” (PDF p.280-281).
- Oppenheimer’s articles in it treated in this part include “Antisemitismus” (October 10, 1917), “Nationale Autonomie für die Ostjuden” (April 10, 1917), “Die Ideologie des polnischen Antisemitismus” (June 25, 1917), “Organisationsstatut der jüdischen Gemeinden in Polen” (November 25, 1916), “Zur Regierungserklärung” (March 10, 1918) and “Die Judenfrage in Romanian” (April 10, 1918), the last title as printed (PDF p.274, p.277-278, p.282).
Related pages
Zionism and Cosmopolitanism: Franz Oppenheimer and the Dream of a Jewish Future in Germany and Palestine, Franz Oppenheimer, Komitee für den Osten, Altneuland (journal)