Jewish National Home Research Articles

Effect of rubeola, rubella, varicella, and a viral upper respiratory infection upon the severity of childhood asthma: With a note on the role of corticosteroids

From Jan. 1, 1958, to June 30, 1959, observations were made of the effects of epidemics of rubeola, rubella, varicella, and an acute undifferentiated upper respiratory infection on patients at the Jewish National Home for Asthmatic Children. These observations suggest that: 1. 1. An amelioration of asthma occurs during a number of acute febrile illnesses. 2. 2. Such improvement may be related to the degree of pyrexia and may last from one to six weeks or more. 3. 3. Children on prolonged anti-inflammatory steroid therapy show the same beneficial response to these intercurrent illnesses as do children who have not received steroids. 4. 4. Anti-inflammatory steroids do not necessarily alter the course or mask the symptoms of an acute infection. 5. 5. Prolonged anti-inflammatory steroid therapy, at least in the dosage occasionally required in the management of asthma, does not seem, in the authors' experience, to be associated with an increased incidence of complications of the childhood exanthemata.

Rehovoth Conference on Nuclear Structure

From September 8 to 15 an international gathering of physicists took place for the first time in the small new state of Israel. The 220 participants registered at the conference included 155 guests from countries ranging alphabetically from Argentina to Yugoslavia. The choice of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovoth, Israel, as the location of the International Conference on Nuclear Structure was undoubtedly in recognition of Israel as a center of that particular kind of nuclear research which has made the name Racah familiar in laboratories throughout the world. However, in his opening address to the conference, Professor Racah found other links between nuclear structure and the State of Israel. The first Zionist Congress, said Racah, was held at about the same time as the discovery of radioactivity; the Balfour Declaration announcing British Government support for a Jewish National Home in Palestine was promulgated at about the same time as the discovery of artificial radioactivity; and in 1948 the State of Israel was born together with the shell model. To avoid being accused of partisanship with regard to nuclear models, however, he pointed out that one of the distinctive features of Israel were the collective settlements.

An Enemy of the People. Anti-Semitism, Palestine Yesterday and Tomorrow, The Jews and Palestine. A Study in Labour Zionism and Nowhere To Lay Their Heads. The Jewish Tragedy in Europe and its Solution

Journal Article An Enemy of the People. Anti-Semitism, Palestine Yesterday and Tomorrow, The Jews and Palestine. A Study in Labour Zionism and Nowhere To Lay Their Heads. The Jewish Tragedy in Europe and its Solution Get access An Enemy of the People. Anti-Semitism. By The Reverend James Parkes. 1945. (Harmondsworth, Middlesex. New York: Penguin Books. 7″ × 4½″. 149 pp. Biblio. 9d.)Palestine Yesterday and Tomorrow. By The Reverend James Parkes. 1945. (London: British Association for the Jewish National Home in Palestine. 8½″ × 5½″. 19 pp. 6d.)The Jews and Palestine. A Study in Labour Zionism. By S. Levenberg. Preface by J. S. Middleton. 1945. (London: Poale Zion, Jewish Socialist Labour Party. 7½″ × 5″. 402 pp. 7s. 6d.)Nowhere to Lay Their Heads. The Jewish Tragedy in Europe and its Solution. By Victor Gollancz. 1945. (London: Gollancz. 7½″ × 5″. 32 pp. 6d.) Norman Bentwich Norman Bentwich Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 22, Issue 1, January 1946, Pages 111–112, https://doi.org/10.2307/3017880 Published: 01 January 1945

The Jewish National Home. The Second November, 1917–1942

The Jewish National Home. The Second November, 1917–1942

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:The Pekkham Experiment. By Innes H. Pearse and Lucy H. Crocker.Russia Through the Centuries. By M. Philips Price, M.P.Our Soviet Ally. Essays edited by Margaret Cole.Great Britain, France and the German Problem, 1918–1939. By W. M. Jordan.Why I Am a Jew. By Edmond Fleg. Translated by Victor Gollancz.Towards Historic Judaism. By E. Berkovits.The Jewish National Home, 1917–1942. Edited by Paul Goodman.The Jewish Contribution to Civilisation. By Cecil Roth.A Short History of the Jewish People. By Cecil Roth.War‐Time Pattern of Saving and Spending. By Charles MadgeArmies and the Art of Revolution. By K. C. Chorley.Europe Rises. By Dorothy Woodman.The Transition from War to Peace. Report of the Delegation on Economic Depressions. Part I.The Displacement of Population in Europe. By Eugene M. Kulischer.The United States in the World Economy.

The Jewish National Home

It is just fifty years ago since Theodor Herzl, a Viennese Jew who, short of baptism, was completely assimilated, went to Paris to report the trial of Alfred Dreyfus, a French Jew and an officer of the French army who, like Herzl, had ceased to be Jewish in anything but name. The extraordinary outburst of anti-semitism to which the trial gave rise and the completely unjustifiable conviction of Dreyfus moved Herzl to the depths. The Jewish problem, the present plight and future destiny of the Jewish people, became the dominating concern of the remaining years of his life. Three years later a Zionist organisation was set up under his leadership. Its aim was formulated foy its first Congress, held at Basle in August, 1897. ‘Zionism,’ the Congress declared, ‘aims at establishing-for the Jewish people a home in Palestine secured by public law.’Twenty-five years later, on November 2nd, 1917, a letter was addressed to the then Lord Rothschild by Arthur James Balfour, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, on behalf of His Majesty’s Government, viewing with favour ‘the establishment in Palestine of a “national home for the Jewish people,’ and undertaking to ‘use their best endeavour to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.’

The Negro Forty-Ninth State in the Light of the Jewish National Home

Zionism is the name given to the movement which aims at the restoration of Jewish national life in Palestine. It is based upon the conviction that the Jews can best fulfil their destiny by reviving their corporate. life upon a national basis in their ancestral country, and that only by this means can they preserve Jewry from disintegration to which it is now exposed and secure its permanent development. Thus speaks Israel Cohen in a recent essay entitled Progress of Zionism, an official publication of the Zionist movement. And it is a true and clearcut statement of Zionist philosophy as well as of Zionist aims. While yet in the throes of the fear of being swept from her position of domination in the Near and MiddleEast, Britain made a too-good-to-be true promise to the Jews. Through one of her high-powered diplomats she promised Jews, through some of the more zealous of their leaders, that if they supported her in her life and death struggle with the Turks and Germans she would help them realize the dream of a National Home in Palestine. Incidentally this archmaker and breaker of promises also promised something thrillingly enticing to the Arabs. Through another of her clever diplomats she assured the Arabs the realization of the dream of an independent Arab state embracing all Arabic lands, provided of course that the Arabic peoples join with England and her allies in crushing the Turks and the Germans. Not knowing what the other had been promised, both Jews and Arabs took seriously England's promises regarding their future. Here in America Jewish political leaders together with the many shades of orthodox and sentimental Christians were instrumental in getting the United States government to enter into treaty relations with England to the end of furthering the Jewish National Home movement. Since the end of the War Palestine Jewish population has increased from fifty thousand to five hundred thousand. Hundreds of millions of dollars, collected from every corner of the earth, have literally been emptied into Jewish farms in that poor desert land. Colossal sums have likewise been poured into propaganda, private and public buildings, enterprises, and roads. In tragically few cases, however, have conditions improved at all for the Jews over what they were when the National Home was first given some sort of official reality. After more than twenty years of the most heroic effort, pioneers are being held at bay by the desert sands, despite the fact that they are internationally supported, and possess the best in Western skill and Western knowledge. Britain is still making conflicting promises. Today the Arabs beat in much more

Literature for Jerusalem University

AT the third annual conference of the Inter-University Jewish Federation held at Oriel College, Oxford, on August 3, 1920, it was unanimously resolved, in response to a request of the Zionist Organisation, to render every possible assistance to all efforts on behalf of the Hebrew University at Jerusalem. The most urgent need at the present juncture is an immediate and abundant supply of books for the Jerusalem University library. We can conceive no cause more precious and commendable than the full development and firm consolidation of the intellectual and spiritual resources of the Jewish national home. To this end books are the first requisite. In a scarcity of books the mind of a people is denied free expansion and healthy growth. To Jews, with their love of learning, the lack of books is most distressing. In Palestine, unfortunately, there is a real book famine, and even with help from all over the world it will need a great effort to build up the present University library of about 40,000 volumes into an up-to-date library worthy of the Jewish University.