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Sokolov Writes about the Shekel

Published by the Zionist Organization Directorate
Jerusalem – 1937


Sokolov Writes about the Shekel

All popular movements founded amongst the Jews in the past seventy years, from the period of the Enlightenment to the movement of our National Rebirth, have been assisted by the multifaceted and all-encompassing personality of Nahum Sokolov (Chanukah 1859 – May 17, 1936). He served as leader and spokesman for all the cultural projects which provided these movements with their bases and their strength. He began his activities with Ha-Tsefira towards the end of the eighteen-seventies, before he himself had reached the age of twenty, and continued throughout his long life in every public field of endeavor; he never adjourned his writing and other activities, not even for a single day, constantly engaging in a war of opinions and in attempts to influence Jewish public opinion. During the last thirty years of his life he played a central role in the Zionist political leadership, and between 1931 and 1935, from the seventeenth to the nineteenth Congress, he was the President of the Zionist Organization and the Jewish Agency for Eretz-Israel.


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