FOOTNOTES:
[17] See vol. II, p. 332.
[18] After the publication of his Judenstaat, Herzl openly confessed that at the time of writing he did not know of the existence of Pinsker's "Autoemancipation."
[19] The motto prefixed to Herzl's Zionistic novel Altneuland.
[20] It was founded in 1889 and disbanded in 1897.
[21] [See vol. II, p. 421 et seq.]
[22] [Ahad Ha'am's report is embodied in the second volume of his collected essays (Berlin, 1903) under the title Tehiyyat ha-Ru'ah, "The Spiritual Revival." An English version of this article is found in Leon Simon's translation of Ahad Ha'am's essays (Jewish Publication Society of America, Philadelphia, 1912), p. 253 et seq.]
[23] [A number of articles under that title appeared originally in the Russian-Jewish monthly Voskhod. They were subsequently enlarged and published in book form in 1907. The first two "Letters" were rendered into German by the translator of this volume and published in 1905 by the Jüdischer Verlag in Berlin, under the title Die Grundlagen des Nationaljudentums.]
[24] See later, p. [108] et seq.
[25] The ha-Shiloah was edited from 1896 to 1902 by Ahad Ha'am in Odessa, though it was published in Berlin. Beginning with 1903, it was edited by Dr. Joseph Klausner, also in Odessa.
[26] ['Abdut be-tok Herut, the title of one of these articles.]
[27] [Tehiyyat ha-Ru'ah, the title of another article, based upon his report at the Zionist Convention at Minsk. See above, p. [51].]
[28] The first three volumes appeared in 1895-1904. [The fourth volume appeared in 1913. A German rendering of Ahad Ha'am's selected essays by the translator of the present volume was published in Berlin in 1904; a second enlarged edition appeared in 1913. An English translation by Leon Simon was issued by the Jewish Publication Society of America in 1912.]
[29] [He died, after the completion of the present volume by the author, on December 15, 1917.]
[30] [The Yiddish equivalent for "Grandfather.">[
[31] A collection of his sketches, translated into English by Helena Frank, was issued by the Jewish Publication Society of America in 1906.
[32] Died in New York on May 13, 1916.
[33] See vol II, p. 228 et seq.
[34] See vol. II, p. 330, n. 1.
[35] "If thou wish to know the fountain—whence thy martyred brethren drew their inspiration."