uizing in Yiddish:

Through the windows what am I seeing,
Like turtle-doves hitherward fleeing?
Are my Joseph and Benjamin knocking at my door?
O Heavens, O mighty wonder!
Those are my children yonder!
Yes, my dearest and my truest coming home once more!

But Zionism is not exclusively either a political or a religious
movement. It is both plus something else; it is eminently educational.
It has produced novelists and poets, whose writings are full of the
virility and beauty of a rejuvenated nation. In Jaffa it established a
high school (Bet ha-Sefer), it inspired Doctor Chazanowicz to establish
a national library, and ways and means are being considered to establish
a national university in Palestine.

Even among the devotees of the arts it has given rise to a new romantic
school, young painters and sculptors who are depicting their
Judenschmerz.

Their cunning hands--says Mr. Leo Mielziner--have mastered the
technique of their art, be it in Moscow or Munich, or Berlin, or
Paris, but the heart which inspires their brush or mallet
pulsates in Palestine. The wandering Jew in them pauses, not to
portray the impression of the foreign lands and stranger
customs, but to depict his own suffering, his own Heimweh, his
own aspirations.

Struck, Ashkenasi, Maimon, Hirszenberg, Gottlieb, Epstein, Loebschuetz,
and Schatz are the leaders of this new movement. The last-named,
together with Ephraim Moses Lilien of Galicia, perhaps the greatest
Jewish illustrator of our time, has founded a national school, Bezalel,
to propagate Jewish art in Palestine, on the same principles on which
the great national art schools of other countries are based. The
language of instruction is Hebrew.

Meanwhile the Society for the Promotion of Haskalah continued its work
of Russification and general civilization. After 1880 its activity was
greatly enhanced, and its members worked with renewed zeal. It opened
elementary schools, and expended large sums on stipends for students,
and the publication of useful and scholarly books. The branch in Odessa
secured two hundred and thirty-one new members in one year (1900),
making the total in that city alone nine hundred and sixty-eight. It
organized a bureau of information on pedagogic subjects, and through the
liberality of Kalonymos Wissotzky instituted prizes for original works
in Hebrew or Russian. Individual philanthropists did their utmost to
counterbalanc