Excerpt from The Struggle for the Hebrew Language in Palestine The events of the past three months (November, 1913 - January, 1914) have precipitated the Jewish people into a conflict over the Hebrew language. On the one side in this struggle is Palestine, the new Palestine, active, energetic, confident of its future. Its live city population is on this side, the whole of its educated class, the laborers and settlers in all the Jewish colonies, the school-teachers, sober-minded men of experience who have devoted their lives to the revival of Hebrew, and their pupils, young people eager to live a Jewish life in the spirit of their models. It is the side that is upheld by the Zionist organization, which stands solid on this issue, ready for any sacrifice. On the other side are the leading personages in the Hilfsverein of the German Jews. Dr. Paul Nathan, head of the Hilfsverein, is mainly responsible for the policy of that body. He placed himself in opposition to the clearly expressed will of the people of Palestine, and in a pamphlet of his entitled "Palestine and Palestinian Zionism," he bitterly attacked the Zionist movement and its responsible representatives. To us this great struggle signifies more than a mere polemical controversy with Dr. Nathan. The best way, in our opinion, to defend ourselves is to show objectively what the revival of the Hebrew language in Palestine signifies for the whole of Judaism and Jewry, what role it plays in the development of education in Palestine, and how the conflict over the school system has arisen. The best answer is the truth. The struggle over the Hebrew language has assumed a particularly acute character in Germany. There the opponents of Zionism have united into an anti-Zionist alliance, which finds no methods too base to use in fighting Zionism. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.