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Nordau, Max

Simon Maximilian Suedfeld (1849-1923) co-founder of the World Zionist Organization, phlosopher, writer, orator, and physician. Born in Pest, the son of Rabbi Gabriel Suedfeld. Nordau drafted the famed Basle Program in 1897 at the First Zionist Congress. He surveyed the Jewish situation in the world and described and analyzed the physical and material plight of the Jews in Eastern Europe, as well as the moral plight of the emancipated and assimilated Western Jew, who had lost his contact with his fellow-Jews and faced political and social anti-Semitism. These addresses together with his other Zionist pronouncements, became classics of Zionist literature.

Justice for the Jewish People: Address At the Eight Zionist Congress
We Zionists wear our Judaism as a badge of honor. This has become so much a matter of course with us that it fills us with amused astonishment when we behold others timidly concealing it as a stigma. In countries of mixed nationalities our colleagues have proclaimed their Jewish nationality, while demanding a regard for the needs of the Jewish people and a respect for their ethical individuality equal to that shown other peoples. To our youth Zionism gives pride in their history, faith in themselves, and the moral support of an ideal. [Full article...]
Jewish History > 1860-1948: Early Zionist Age
People > 1860-1948: Early Zionist Age

Address at the Seventh Zionist Congress: Tribute to the Late Dr. Herzl
Herzl was a model and an educator. He straightened the back of a broken people. He gave them hope, he showed them means. He sowed far and wide. The seed will sprout, and his people will garner the harvest. (1905) [Full article...]
Jewish History > 1860-1948: Early Zionist Age
People > 1860-1948: Early Zionist Age

How to improve the living conditions of the Jewish People: Address at the Fifth Zionist Congress
I must say that the Jewish people, in its entirety, is incomparably the poorest of all the peoples in the world. I make this assertion unconditionally and unreservedly. There is no people in the world that possesses less than we, or even so little as we do. [Full article...]
Jewish History > 1860-1948: Early Zionist Age
People > 1860-1948: Early Zionist Age

Hostorical warning prior to WWII: ADDRESS AT THE FOURTH ZIONIST CONGRESS
At the turn of the 20th Century, and in the wake of Romanian expulsion of its Jewish population, this is a visionary speech outlining the dangers lying ahead... [Full article...]
Jewish History > 1860-1948: Early Zionist Age
People > 1860-1948: Early Zionist Age

Unite for Zionism: ADDRESS AT THE THIRD ZIONIST CONGRESS
In this speech, Max Nordau analyses the formation stages of the Zionist idea. He urges all Jews, no matter what their religious or political positions are, to adhere to the Zionist movement in order to make an impact on the destiny of the Jewish Nation. [Full article...]
Jewish History > 1860-1948: Early Zionist Age
People > 1860-1948: Early Zionist Age

CAUSES OF FAILURE AND CONDITIONS OF SUCCESS.: ZIONISM
An interesting analysis of the achievements and failures and an insight into the conflicts within the Zionist movement during the early years of its existence. [Full article...]
Jewish History > 1860-1948: Early Zionist Age
People > 1860-1948: Early Zionist Age

Authentic historical insight to Zionism: ZIONISM
An overview of the first steps of Zionism as authored by Max Nordau. His insight, as reflected in his writing, is still relevant today regarding many issues concerning Zionism, Anti-Semitism and historical analysis of the early 20th Century. [Full article...]
Jewish History > 1860-1948: Early Zionist Age
People > 1860-1948: Early Zionist Age
Zionism > Essential Zionist Texts

The 'Uganda' Congress: Address at the Sixth Zionist Congress
Make no mistake. We cannot afford to wait if we abandon ourselves to despair of our future, if we lay down our arms in abject surrender; for then we should rush at terrific speed to a most horrible downfall. But if we once again summon up courage, resolve to continue to live as a nation, have a clear and settled purpose, then once more shall we be the "everlasting people," am olam, and nothing nor anybody will be able to do us the least bit of harm. [Full article...]
Zionism > Essential Zionist Texts

That Jewish distress cries for help.: Address at the First Zionist Congress
To Jewish distress no-one can remain indifferent, neither Christian nor Jew. It is a great sin to let a race to whom even their worst enemies do not deny ability, degenerate in intellectual and physical distress. It is a sin against them and against the work of civilization, in the interest of which Jews have not been useless co-workers. [Full article...]
Zionism > Essential Zionist Texts