Excerpt from A Zionist Primer This volume published by Young Judaea attempts to make clear to the Jewish youth the Jewish problem and the solution as formulated in the Zionist program. Young Judaea is an organization of young men and young women who are awakened to the needs of our people and who desire to equip themselves for effective service in the training of our youth. We feel the menace of a generation growing up in ignorance of its history, traditions and national ideals. Education in the schools of America can teach the new generation only the beauties of other cultures, and the heroisms of other nations. The Bible has become a sealed book, or one to be read in the light of an interpretation dominated by alien thought; and the heroic figures of our own history, our national revival and the Hebrew renaissance are almost entirely unknown. The new generation is largely unconscious of the vital and creative forces that have their roots in the East, and of which the Jewish nation is the guardian; of the national heroism that has endured throughout the ages; of the lofty vision of a commonwealth to be rebuilt in Palestine and based on justice and righteousness, a vision cherished with unfaltering courage for thousands of years and which has given continuity and significance to Jewish history. Palestine is the motif that runs through all the drama of our history. It is the subject of the dreams of our prophets, our sages and our poets. This book is the account of an attempt to realize the dreams of the centuries. We feel that this volume must appeal to the love of heroism in the Jewish youth, to his sense of dignity and to his highest aspirations for freedom and self-realization. We hope the response will be such as to encourage us in our efforts to bring back and hold our Jewish youth to the path of his fathers. 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.