{"id":2350,"date":"2012-04-11T20:28:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-11T20:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjhblog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2012\/04\/11\/click-on-the-text-of-the-poem-above-to-see-an-3\/"},"modified":"2018-06-27T16:52:34","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T16:52:34","slug":"click-on-the-text-of-the-poem-above-to-see-an-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2012\/04\/11\/click-on-the-text-of-the-poem-above-to-see-an-3\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-2350 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2012\/04\/11\/click-on-the-text-of-the-poem-above-to-see-an-3\/attachment\/2351\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/tumblr_m2c0wahKvo1r3qmd1o1_r2_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Click on the text of the poem above to see an enlarged version for easier reading.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Homeward&rdquo; by P. M. Raskin was published in <em>The Maccabaean<\/em> in May 1917.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As Naomi W. Cohen explains in her article &ldquo;<em>The Maccabaean&rsquo;s<\/em> Message: A Study in American Zionism Until World War I&rdquo; (<em>Jewish Social Studies<\/em>, Vol. 18, No. 3, July 1956, p. 163):<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Four years after the first Zionist Congress at Basel, the Federation of American Zionists launched its official monthly journal, <em>The Maccabaean<\/em>. The magazine (in its inaugural issue) declared its devotion to the &lsquo;living literature and life of the Jewish people,&rsquo; and avowed rather ambitious aims:<\/p>\n<p>&rdquo;&#8217;To reconstruct the Jewish people, to lead them to an organized national existence, to make Jewish religious life possible, to foster the study of Jewish literature and history, to provide a stable home for the oppressed and downtrodden of our race.&rsquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;These ideas were elaborated to a greater or lesser extent in subsequent issues of <em>The Maccabaean<\/em>, with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jacob_de_Haas\" target=\"_blank\">Jacob de Haas<\/a> and Louis Lipsky emerging as the key editorial figures. In the light of this program, <em>The Maccabaean<\/em> magazine evaluated various facets of American Jewish life.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/4465454\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to access the rest of Naomi W. Cohen&rsquo;s article on JSTOR.<\/p>\n<p><em>Submitted by Susan Woodland, American Jewish Historical Society.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click on the text of the poem above to see an enlarged version for easier reading. &ldquo;Homeward&rdquo; by P. M. Raskin was published in The Maccabaean in May 1917.\u00a0 As Naomi W. Cohen explains in her article &ldquo;The Maccabaean&rsquo;s Message: A Study in American Zionism Until World War I&rdquo; (Jewish Social Studies, Vol. 18, No. 3, July 1956, p. 163): &ldquo;Four years after the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1221,1084,1222,962,1223,91],"class_list":["post-2350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-blog-post","tag-jacob-de-haas","tag-louis-lipsky","tag-naomi-w-cohen","tag-national-poetry-month","tag-the-maccabaean","tag-zionism","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2352,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2350\/revisions\/2352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}