A program that emerged within the Zionist movement around 1900, which was in conformity with the situation of Jews in the Diaspora. Gegenwartsarbeit (“work for the present”) aimed at bringing about the best possible conditions for a Jewish national existence, especially in the three multi-ethnic empires – the Habsburg monarchy, the Czarist Empire of the Romanovs, and the Ottoman Empire – and later their …
Gegenwartsarbeit (2,394 words)
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Shumsky, Dimitry, “Gegenwartsarbeit”, in: Encyclopedia of Jewish History and Culture Online, Original German Language Edition: Enzyklopädie Jüdischer Geschichte und Kultur. Im Auftrag der Sächsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig herausgegeben von Dan Diner. © J.B. Metzler, Stuttgart/Springer-Verlag GmbH Deutschland 2011–2017. Consulted online on 27 September 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2468-8894_ejhc_COM_0251>
First published online: 2016
First print edition: 20200106
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