Summary
Zionist journalist and contemporary of Oppenheimer who, in Zionism and Cosmopolitanism: Franz Oppenheimer and the Dream of a Jewish Future in Germany and Palestine, considered Oppenheimer an opportunist attracted to Zionism mainly by the prospect of applying his settlement theory at vast scale (PDF p.114).
Details
- Weltsch wrote: “What attracted him to Zionism was – apart from his passionate wish to help his less fortunate fellow Jews – mainly the prospect of applying his theory to a new and vast scheme of land settlement which, he insisted, should be free from the faults of those in older, long-established countries.” (PDF p.114; introduction to Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook 9 (1964)).
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Zionism and Cosmopolitanism: Franz Oppenheimer and the Dream of a Jewish Future in Germany and Palestine, Franz Oppenheimer