Basel Program: Difference between revisions

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In 1951 it was replaced by the [[Jerusalem Program]].

==History==

==Drafting committee==

ItThe Basel Program was drafted by a committee originally elected on Sunday 29 August 1897{{sfn|Jubilee Publication|1947|p=73}} comprising [[Max Nordau]] (heading the committee),{{sfn|Epstein|2016|p=54,83-87}} [[Nathan Birnbaum]], [[Alexander Mintz]], [[Siegmund Rosenberg]], [[:de: Saul Raphael Landau |Saul Rafael Landau]],{{sfn|Bodenheimer|1963|p=102|ps= "...the commission, whose members were Nordau, Nathan Birnbaum, Sigmund Rosenberg, Dr. Minz, and Saul Rafael Landau was formed, and in addition Professor Schapira and I were also included..."}}{{sfn|Epstein|2016|p=54,83-87}}<ref name="EJ2007">{{citation|last1=Skolnik|first1=Fred|last2=Berenbaum|first2=Michael|title=Encyclopaedia Judaica|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vKoUAQAAIAAJ|year=2007|publisher=Macmillan Reference USA|isbn=978-0-02-865931-2|page=202}}</ref> together with [[Hermann Schapira]] and [[Max Bodenheimer]] who were added to the committee on the basis of them having both drafted previous similar programs (including the "Kölner Thesen").{{sfn|Jubilee Publication|1947|p=73}}

The seven-man committee prepared the Program over three drafting meetings.{{sfn|Jubilee Publication|1947|p=73}}

==The ProgramGoals==

The program set out the goals of the Zionist movement as follows:{{sfn|Jubilee Publication|1947|p=74-76}}

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The original draft did not include the word for "publicly recognized"; this was the only amendment made during the debate at the Congress, and can be seen in the final version with the word [[wiktionary:öffentlich|öffentlich]] inserted via a [[curly bracket]].{{sfn|Jubilee Publication|1947|p=74-76}} The amended draft was approved unanimously by the 200-person congress.{{sfn|Jubilee Publication|1947|p=74-76}}

==References==

{{Reflist}}

==Bibliography==

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* {{citation|last=Epstein|first=Lawrence J.|title=The Dream of Zion: The Story of the First Zionist Congress|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OLxnCgAAQBAJ|date=14 January 2016|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-1-4422-5467-1}}

* {{cite book|first=Max|last=Bodenheimer|authorlink=Max Bodenheimer|title=Prelude to Israel: The Memoirs of M. I. Bodenheimer|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015026627060;view=1up;seq=11|year=1963|publisher=T. Yoseloff|ref=harv}}

==References==

{{Reflist}}

[[Category:Zionism]]