Publisher's Synopsis
In stressing the historical point of view, as I do throughout the volume, I trust that even those who may not be disposed to agree with me will recognize that I do not look upon the historical treatment of a subject as a cold-blooded anatomical dissection. The historian must aim to clothe the skeleton of his facts with flesh and sinews, aye, even to supply it with "teeth." In tracing Zionism to its roots, as in following the trend of Jewish history including a survey of the Reform movement in Judaism, and in setting forth the present-day conditions in Palestine, it has been my aim not only to be fair, but also to reveal my sympathies for those larger aspects of Jewish history which account for the peculiar interest attaching to an analysis of the status of the Jews, and more particularly to their strange survival, despite all vicissitudes.
