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In Hebrew. 152 pages. 199 x 147 mm. With many black and white photos. Printed on high quality paper. Wonderfully written, in a style still fresh almost a century since it was written. Originally published as Pala?stina heute, Licht und Schatten. Hugo Herrmann (June 23, 1887 Mährisch-Trübau (Moravska Trebove), Moravia, now in the Czech Republic ? January 1, 1940 Jerusalem, Eretz Israel) was a journalist and Zionist activist. Although known primarily for his political activism, Hugo Herrmann was also an outstanding analyst of German and Italian literature. He was raised in an assimilated German-speaking home, studied German and Romance philology at universities in Prague and Vienna, and during his student days became interested in Zionism. From 1909 through 1912 Herrmann served as secretary of the Zionist Organization of Bohemia, and from 1909 to 1910, he was chairman of the Bar Kochba Association (a Zionist society in Prague). After completing his studies with a dissertation on the novella in the Italian Renaissance, he taught briefly at a gymnasium and then held the post of editor of Selbstwehr (Self-Defense), Prague?s Zionist political and literary weekly. From 1913 until the outbreak of World War I, he was editor in chief of the Jüdische Rundschau (Jewish Review), the central newspaper of the German Zionist Organization. He served in the army in World War I and after his discharge became editor of the Juedisches Volksblatt in Maehrisch-Ostrau (Moravska Ostrava), a post he retained from 1919 to 1922. He also organized the work of the Keren Hayesod in Czechoslovakia and edited the newspaper published at the Zionist Congresses. Eventually he became one of the chief propagandists of the Keren Hayesod and traveled extensively on behalf of the fund. He was one of the founders of Bar Kochba, the Jewish students' organization in Prague and engaged in literary activities on Jewish and Zionist subjects for most of his life. He was very committed to Jewish education, a field that he felt should emphasize moral purity, unselfishness, and the rejection of materialism. According to him, the means of this education was the beautiful ?folkish? idealism that he felt established an elevated, shining goal for the community, to which every individual was linked. It was in this spirit that Herrmann wrote books for children celebrating Hanukkah and Purim. He also wrote songs for the Jewish holidays and descriptions of landscapes in Palestine. In 1925, following his first trip to Eretz Israel, he wrote Eine werdende Welt (An Emerging World), describing his first impressions. The brochure ?Die Araberfrage Palästinas? (The Arab Question in Palestine) appeared in 1932. His Palästina wie es wirklich ist (Palestine as It Really Is) came out in 1933 and was translated into Hebrew. It was followed by Palästinakunde (A Textbook about Palestine), which appeared in installments in 1934 and 1935. In 1934, the year he moved to Palestine, he published a new map of the land. His last book about Palestine was published in 1935 under the title Das neue Palästina Handbuch (The New Palestine Handbook), the fruit of many years of work. With his final publication, In jenen Tagen (In Those Days), which appeared in 1938, he returned to his Bohemian Jewish roots. Semiautobiographical in nature, it deals with the history of his own family and remains one of the best sources for the study of recent generations of rural Jews in Bohemia and Moravia. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 016284
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