The Back to
Israel Movement
of the 1920s

Here is a 1922 pro-Zionist article that first appeared some weeks earlier in The Atlantic Monthly by Rabbi Joel Blau, who believed that antisemitism could only be eradicated if the Jews of the world would return to Israel:

“It is Rabbi Blau’s contention that the troubles of Jews are mainly due to “wrong contacts”. He sees a “progressive deterioration of the Jewish type” caused by constant and age-long association with stronger races”.