Zionist Congresses

Das Judentum ist jetzt auf moralischen Wanderungen begriffen. Wohin der Pfad führt? ... Wir hoffen zu besseren Tagen. - The moral wandering of the Jews has begun. Whither will it lead us? Into better times, let us hope.

Der Kongress ist seinen Jünglingsjahren entwachsen, er ist sozusagen männlich geworden. - The Congress passed out of its boyhood, it has entered the stage of manhood.

Herzl reported to the Congress of his meeting with Sultan Abdul Hamid II of Turkey and of the progress of the Jewish Colonial Trust. These achievements did not satisfy all the delegates, in particular those associated with the recently formed Democratic Faction.

At the Fifth Zionist Congress, a resolution was adopted determining that the next Congress would take place every alternate year and not - as had been the practice - annually.