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Litman Rosenthal
1933
Littman Rosenthal writes to a fellow Zionist Joshua Hoeschel Farbstein.
Litman Rosenthal from Bialystok, one of the first pioneers of Zionism, a delegate of the Zionist
World Organization in Russia and a close colleague of Theodore Herzl, used to send articles about
Zionist themes sporadically. In the Haynt-Jubilee-Book of 1908-1928 he published recollections of
the serious crisis in Zionism after the 6th Congress in 1903., after Theodore Herzl stated the
proposal of the British Government to create in Uganda, Central Africa, a center for Jewish
emigration under the British administration (Commonwealth.) Herzl saw in the project a temporary
solution, “a night shelter,” as he expressed himself, until a favorable set of circumstances for the
Jewish colonization in Eretz Yisroel would be created. He believed that the provisional safe haven
would be a help for the oppressed Jews in Czarist Russia, but the sharpest opposition came on the
part of none other than the Russian Zionists. At a conference in Kharkov it was even decided to
begin a battle against the Uganda Project and against Herzl himself.
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