[60]. [i.e., in 1889.]
[61]. [An allusion to an old Jewish legend.]
[62]. [1905. It was at this Congress that the split on the question of East Africa (often loosely referred to as Uganda) took place. Some of the minority seceded and formed the Jewish Territorial Organisation.]
[63]. [Russia.]
[64]. Sombart, Socialismus und sociale Bewegung (1905), p. 61.
[65]. [S.D. = Social Democrats; S.S. = Zionist Socialists.]
[66]. [i.e., the Chovevé Zion Hebrew School.]
[67]. [The Hebrew word translated above “devotees” is chassidim = “pious ones.” This name is specifically given to a mystical sect which arose early in the 18th century. The Rabbis of this sect were called by their followers tsaddikim (= “righteous ones”) and were credited by them with supernatural powers.]
[68]. As I write these words some of the best German Social Democrats are making public confession that by sins of this kind their party has alienated many of its supporters, and that to this cause is due in part the great defeat which it suffered in the last elections. But this repentance will not save them from the same sin in future, because the sin is inherent in every Messianic movement. We Jews have only to look at what is happening around us, to be convinced that the characteristic in question is not peculiar to Germany or to the Social Democratic Party.
[69]. [i.e., in 1892.]