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ליקוטי שמואל — Chukas 5784

Выпуск: ליקוטי שמואל — Chukas 5784. Темы: health_mind. Поисковые термины: здоровье, психология, стресс, health, mental, בריאות, נפש. ‫בעלון‬ ‫ בשעת הצורך הרשות נתונה לאמור מהדברים‬- .‫ לשמור‬/ ‫ להעתיק‬/ ‫ לחלק‬/ ‫להדפיס‬ ‫ אך הבא להדפיס יביא גאולה לעולם וידפיס בשם‬.‫שבעלון אף שלא בשם אומרם‬ .‫אומרו‬ How a Brooklyn dentist almost formed a Jewish homeland in pre-WW II China Seeing a land free of antisemitism, Albert Einstein and Chinese leaders pushed plans to settle 100,000 Jews fleeing Nazis in Yunnan, the Himalayan foothills of China’s hinterland By HARRY SAUNDERS On March 7, 1939, China’s top legislative official, Sun Ke, filed a dispatch to the government’s Civil Affairs Office. “The British want to set up a permanent settlement in Palestine,” he continued, “but this has 3 provoked vehement opposition from the Arabs there, and the violence has not yet died down.” Sun Ke believed that a more suitable refuge could be found in his own country. “He too feels that China is the one great hope for Hitler’s victims.” 4 “Your plan,” Einstein responded, “seems to me to be very hopeful and rational and its realization must be pursued energetically.” The more he thought about the plan, the more sense it made. “The Chinese and Jewish peoples,” he told William two months later, “in spite of any apparent differences in their traditions, have this in common: both possess a mentality that is the product of cultures that go back to antiquity.” A homeland not necessarily in the Holy Land By the time William wrote to Einstein, Jewish leaders in Europe had long been searching for a homeland outside of Palestine — “Zionism without Zion,” as historian Gur Alroey put it. Russian activist Leon Pinsker crystallized the idea in his 1882 manifesto “Autoemancipation!”, writing that “the goal of our present endeavors must be not the ‘Holy Land,’ but a land of our own.” Territorialists, as his followers came to be known, spent the next four decades trying, and failing, to achieve Pinsker’s goal. In 1923, William’s self-published refutation of Marxism, “The Social Interpretation of History,” found its way into the hands of Nationalist Party Premier Sun Yat-sen (Sun Ke’s father), who was in the process of 5 articulating his economic vision for the country. Americans first learned about William’s achievement from a 1927 article in Asia Magazine, which declared that Sun Yat-sen “bases his

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ליקוטי שמואל

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12 июля 2024 г.

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Темы: health_mind