Anti-). Hermann Adler. Religious Versus Political Zionism: A Sermon Preached at the North London Synagogue

(ZIONISM,

London

1898

Opposition expressed by British Chief Rabbi Adler's to "the agitation that has been fanned by the two Basle Congresses" (p.6). - That is, to Theordor Herzl's political - as opposed to religious - Zionism. The pamphlet was printed for private circulation only for the wardens of the North London Synagogue. With unguarded vitriol, the Chief Rabbi declares: "We have in former days been visited by sore affliction, but the only persons who have proposed the nostrum of establishing a Jewish State have been men like the adherents of that arch-impostor Sabbatai Zebi" (p.15). Adler felt that the East European Jews of London's East End were being misled by the recent Zionist propaganda (p.9). Adler's remarks were translated into Hebrew and included in the anti-Zionist collection Or LaYesharim (1900)