[300] For a full enumeration of the arguments and sentiments which impelled the mass of Russian and Roumanian Jews in the early ’Eighties to prefer an Eastern to a Western exodus, see Laurence Oliphant, “The Jew and the Eastern Question,” The Nineteenth Century, August, 1882.
[301] Laurence Oliphant, ubi supra. On the other hand, it must not be forgotten that the members of the Chovevi Zion Societies represented but a very small proportion of the total Jews of the world.
[302] The Jewish World, Aug. 15, 1902.
[303] The St. Petersburg correspondent of The Times, Oct. 14, 1902.
[304] See the late Minister’s of the Interior utterances on the subject: Lucien Wolf, “M. De Plehve and the Jewish Question,” in The Times, Feb. 6, 1904.
[305] The Jewish Question, Gay and Bird, 1894, p. 27.
[306] Pp. 31–32.
[307] P. 38.
[308] Table-Talk, April 13, 1830.
[309] Lucien Wolf, “Zionism,” Encyclopaedia Britannica.