Currently, when children flee from bombing in wartime, they are called refugees. In Great Britain, at the start of the Second World War, they were called evacuees. Between 1939 and 1945, there was a great effort by the Anglo-Jewish establishment to provide Jewish religious education for both children evacuated from big cities, and also refugee … Continue reading Passover 1945 – Joint Emergency Committee for Jewish Education in Great Britain, London, 1945.
Tag: Leon Simon
About Zionism, Speeches and Lectures by Professor Albert Einstein with an introduction by Leon Simon, London, 1930.
This book is the first edition (which precedes the American edition by one year) of this volume of Albert Einstein's speeches and letters concerning his views on Zionism. Einstein was not a conventional thinker, and as we might expect, his views on Zionism were not conventional either. He was an assimilated Jew who saw that … Continue reading About Zionism, Speeches and Lectures by Professor Albert Einstein with an introduction by Leon Simon, London, 1930.
Moses by Achad Ha-Am, translated from Hebrew to English by Leon Simon, London 1917.
This is another early Zionist pamphlet, originally written in Hebrew in 1904 and translated into English by Leon Simon. It was published in 1917, the year of the Balfour Declaration, by "The Zionist" in London (but printed in Leeds). Achad Ha-Am, which means 'one of the people' was the pen name of Asher Zvi Hirsch … Continue reading Moses by Achad Ha-Am, translated from Hebrew to English by Leon Simon, London 1917.
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