{"id":293,"date":"2005-11-26T22:17:49","date_gmt":"2005-11-26T22:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/26\/vshavu-banim-lgvulam\/"},"modified":"2005-11-26T22:17:49","modified_gmt":"2005-11-26T22:17:49","slug":"vshavu-banim-lgvulam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/26\/vshavu-banim-lgvulam\/","title":{"rendered":"V&#8217;Shavu Banim l&#8217;Gvulam &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/davidwilder.blogspot.com\/2005\/11\/vshavu-banim-lgvulam.html\"><strong>V&#8217;Shavu Banim l&#8217;Gvulam<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Excerpts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dr. Max Nordau, one of the founders of the World Zionist Organization, was named at birth Meir-Simcha. However, he was known as Max, a children&#8217;s doctor in Paris. <strong>The following story was told by Avraham Shmuel Yehuda, a Jerusalem Orientalist professor, in his book, &#8216;Ezer HaRav,; describing how Nordau became interested in Zionism.<\/strong> &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>On the second night of First Zionist Congress in Basel, Nordau spoke in German, giving a long speech. He mentioned several times, as a motto, three words from Jeremiah, in Hebrew, &#8216;v&#8217;Shavu Banim l&#8217;Gvulam,&#8217; &#8216;Our Children Have Returned to their Borders.&#8217; <\/strong> When asked by a young representative at the congress how he found this verse, and especially in Hebrew,  for this did not fit Nordau&#8217;s educational background, <strong>Nordau replied: &#8216;I know these words from the person to whom I am obliged all my Judaism and Zionism. A person whose name I don&#8217;t even know. A person who was, in essence, only a little boy of eight or ten.&#8217;<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>V&#8217;Shavu Banim l&#8217;Gvulam Excerpts: &#8220;Dr. Max Nordau, one of the founders of the World Zionist Organization, was named at birth Meir-Simcha. However, he was known as Max, a children&#8217;s doctor in Paris. The following story was told by Avraham Shmuel Yehuda, a Jerusalem Orientalist professor, in his book, &#8216;Ezer HaRav,; describing how Nordau became interested [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}