The Maccabaean

quent much the great highways. I conversed with them, thinking the outcast may be the outcasts' friend. It were an idle act, yet when I withdrew from this company and returned to the inn where my friends still tarried, I noted as I retraced my steps that the village girls looked askance at me and somewhat fearful, and I learned from my friends who have the law of the seven countries at their fingers' tips that I had again put my poor head in the lion's mouth and that had an officious guardian of the law noticed me he could have laid hands on me for consorting with gypsies. Why this should be no Rabbi can explain.

And now must I pause and close this letter. The garden of the world liesbefore me, the road is no longer so steep and I am about to enter that grand country of Italy which has known us Jews since we had no home. I linger yet o’er thewriting; imagining, in my poor way, that it’s a link worthily fashioned, o’er whichmy lingering will, to thee, give this letter an added charm. So to Venice, sendinggreetings, goes your student lover. SOLOMON.

The Program of the Chovevi Zionists

Facsimile of an appeal, issued in 4 languages, by the German Chovevi Zion Association, 1881-1882.

Whither with the russian banished jews?

That is in our days the principal question which moves all sensible hearts. — Therefore no one moment is to be lost in procuring a father land to these unhappy portion of our brethren. Many projects have recently been made, in order to find the proper way to reach that view. In the annexed pamphlet there has been for the first time traced a plan grounded on national and economical base to indicate the

In the annexed pamphlet there has been for the first time traced a plan grounded on national and economical base to indicate the wished-for way. — The point in question is not phantastical imaginations, but an economical practicable transaction.

Therefore we apply to you, Gentleman, in full conviction that, even when your opinion should differ from the views therein explained You will be kind enough to assist us in our undertaking by procuring a quick circulation to the aforesaid pamphlet, so as to interest the public attention to our scheme which since the lapse of ten years is directed to syria and to palestina.

The net-proceeds of the sale of the before mentioned pamphlet is to be employed to assist our russian brethren.

We flatter ourselves that the cnnfidence with which we address your. — you being a most competent judge of the matter will not be frustrated and that you would use all your influence to procure a ready sale to our pamphlet so as to enable us to aid a vaste numbre of banished persons.

Therefore we crave your Kindness in endeavourig to propogate the pamphlet amongst your acquaintances and to send the amount thereof to the publisher of the Menorah in Hamburg in post-stamps (when you find this way most suitable), to whom please to give if required your completing orders. — We shall give regular accounts with regard to the amounts received and of the application thereof. The copies which remain unsold please to send back within four weeks to the publisher of the „Menorah.“

The undersigned have charged themselves with the superintendence of the employment of the amounts received: M Dr. Apfel in Cologne Dr. jur. Bodenheimer in Cologne. M Dr. Auerbach in Cologne M Deutschländer „redactor“ Hamburg. Gustav Tuoh, Hamburg. Dr. Isidor Hirsch, Hamburg. Dr. Pinsker, Odessa. Dr. Adolf Salvandi, Chief-Rabbi of the County of Dürkheim on the Haardt.

Q N the occasion of the reprint of the valuable circular (which was appended to Dr. Bodenheimer's pamphlet, "Wohin mit den russischen Juden," 1881-2), the issue between the Chovevi Zion and political Zionism may be stated. The first Chovevi Zion was founded with the purpose of sheltering oppressed and banished Russian Jews only. At the time German, Austrian, French and English Jews enjoyed the full freedom of their