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First Edition thus [stated], presumed first printing
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East and West Library
Published:
1960
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English
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Good in Good () jacket. xii, [2], 348 pages. Glossary of Hebrew Words. Bibliographical Note. Notes. Index. Small tears and chips to dust jacket. Minor edge soiling. Sir Leon Simon, the author of this book, was one of the intimate circle of Ahad Ha-Am's disciples during the decade and a half of the latter's residence in London. He became a devoted translator of Ahad Ha-Am's works and an expounder of his teachings. Sir Leon Simon CB (born 1881 in Southampton; died 1965 in London) was a leading British Zionist intellectual and civil servant who took part in the drafting of the Balfour Declaration of 1917 and served on the Zionist Commission with Chaim Weizmann. An advocate of cultural Zionism and the reviver of Hebrew language, Simon was a scholar and translator of Ahad Ha'am, and produced the first modern Hebrew translations of Plato. He served as the Chairman of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Executive Council, and as from 1949-50 as the university's President. Simon came under the influence of Ahad Ha'am (Asher Zvi Hirsch Ginzberg), a leading figure of cultural Zionism, and went on to translate many of his works into English as well as writing his biography. Simon was a member of the Zionist Commission alongside Israel Sieff, M. D. Eder and others in 1918 to begin talks with the government of David Lloyd George on the establishment of a Jewish State in Palestine. A draft of the Balfour Declaration, written by Simon on paper of London's Imperial Hotel on July 17, 1917 was auctioned off in 2005 through Sotheby's for $884, 000 US in New York. It is the only known surviving handwritten draft of the declaration. Asher Zvi Hirsch Ginzberg (18 August 1856-2 January 1927), primarily known by his Hebrew name and pen name Ahad Ha'am, was a Hebrew essayist, and one of the foremost pre-state Zionist thinkers. He is known as the founder of cultural Zionism. With his secular vision of a Jewish "spiritual center" in Israel. Unlike Herzl, the founder of political Zionism, Ha'am strived for "a Jewish state and not merely a state of Jews". In 1896, Ahad Ha'am founded the Hebrew monthly. Ha-Shiloa, the leading Hebrew-language literary journal in the early twentieth century. It was a vehicle to promote Jewish nationalism and a platform for discussion of past and present issues relevant to Judaism. Ahad Ha'am's ideas were popular at a very difficult time for Zionism, beginning after the failures of the first Aliya. His unique contribution was to emphasize the importance of reviving Hebrew and Jewish culture both in Palestine and throughout the Diaspora, something that was recognized only belatedly, when it became part of the Zionist program after 1898. Ahad Ha'am played an important role in the revival of the Hebrew language and Jewish culture, and in cementing a link between the proposed Jewish state and Hebrew culture. Ahad Ha-Am represents one of the most interesting manifestations of the vitality of the Jewish spirit. The basis of his thought was an attempt to join the Prophetic tradition and Jewish idealism with the culture of the western world. To a generation of Jews whose intellectual leaders had abandoned the ways and views of their parents, but could find no no goals that would assure their people's survival, Ahad Ha-Am issued a call for a spiritual renaissance through conscious self-dedication to the values implicit in Jewish life. He was acceptable neither to the old orthodoxy nor to the new political nationalism of his day. Yet he laid the foundations for a revivified, vibrant and meaningful Jewish people. Both Israel and the Diaspora feel his influence, and everyone who reads this book will readily see why. In 1955 there appeared in Hebrew a definitive study of Ahad Ha-Am's career written by Sir Leon Simon and the late Joseph Heller. In this English version, the Jewish Publication Society only published the Leon Simon biography. It is an expanded version of Sir Leon's original biographical sketch, a forthright and lucid...
