GERMAN ZIONISM.

The paper focuses on a book related to German Zionism. Poppel has decided to delineate his subject matter rigorously, as is indicated by the title and sub-title of the article, in order to achieve a sharp focus on what he considers Zionism's provocative but overly narrow conception of Jewish identity. He seeks to understand Zionism as it understood itself and to extend the same courtesy to German Jewry as a whole. He considers his procedure scientific and forthrightly insists on the accuracy of his conclusions. Before venturing on his sociological-historical study, Poppel surveys the territory in an introductory chapter. In the beginning the predominant spirit of German Zionism in speech as well as deed might be characterized as either moderate or passive, depending on one's orientation. A whole chapter of Poppel's book is devoted to The Failure of Alyah," it being surely necessary to pay attention to the fact that between 1919 and 1933 a mere 2,000 German Jews took their Zionism seriously enough to effect a return to Zion.