Louis D. Brahdeis

Brandeis on Zionism - a Collection of Address and Statements by Louis D Brandeis Louis D. Brahdeis

BRANDEIS ON ZIONISM- A Collection of Addresses and Statements by Louis D. Brandeis. Foreword: THE attempt to introduce Louis D. Brandeis's writings in any field is saved from presumption only by its folly. He himself supplied the maps to his mind. To a very rare degree, he had intellectual responsibility. He expressed views only after deep searching, and never without confronting the difficulties of a problem. His convictions were the product of long brooding; their formulation was the result of a stubborn struggle for clarity, One may, however, publicly welcome this carefully edited collection of the Justice's utterances on Zionism. They trace the evolution of his mind from indifference to the Jewish problem up to the age of fifty, to sympathetic interest, and from sympathetic interest in Zionism to passionate espousal of the cause of establishing a Jewish National Home in Pales tine. His practical understanding of affairs, his indomitable will in translating righteous aspirations int