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Page iii Like All the Nations? The Life and Legacy of Judah L. Magnes Edited by William M. Brinner and Moses Rischin State University of New York Press Page iv Cover photo: Magnes (Courtesy of the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People and the Jewish National and University Library) Published by State University of New York Press, Albany © 1987 State University of New York All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

Courtesy of Hava Magnes) Page 1 INTRODUCTION: LIKE ALL THE NATIONS? Moses Rischin For the Jewish people, no high end will ever justify low means. We have been nurtured too long in the rabbinic tradition for that. Judah L. Magnes In his last twenty years, the most enigmatic, original, and controversial figure in American Jewish life in the first half of the twentieth century spent his best energies confronting the Arab-Jewish dilemma. In April 1948, desperate to defuse a seemingly endless civil war between the Arab and Jewish Palestines proclaimed in the United Nations partition proposal, the ailing President of the Hebrew University flew from Jerusalem to New York on what proved to be his last peace mission.

The rule-of-thumb consensus that has led scholars to classify olim as Americans based on a five-year residence in the United States has not made it easy to acquire a precise notion of the number of Americans who settled in Palestine or of the nature of their composition, motivation, or commitment. During the British Mandate period (19191948) of the perhaps 7,000 who did so, however, it is unlikely that more than 1500 were of American birth. Yet it is difficult, in the absence of careful research to judge what effect American birth, citizenship, or length of residence, not to speak of so many other variables, had on the reception of Americans who made aliyah.

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