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180 ON THE JEWISH PEOPLE
eyes is not a political but a social and cultural one. The community
in Palestine must approach the social ideal of our forefathers
as it is laid down in the Bible, and at the same time become
a seat of modern intellectual life, a spiritual center for
the Jews of the whole world. In accordance with this notion,
the establishment of a Jewish university in Jerusalem constitutes
one of the most important aims of the Zionist organiza"
tion.
During the last few months I have been to America in order
to help raise the material basis for this University there. The
success of this enterprise was a natural one. Thanks to the
untiring energy and splendid self-sacrificing spirit of the Jewish
doctors in America we have succeeded in collecting enough
money for the creation of a Medical Faculty, and the preliminary
work is being started at once. After this success I bave no
doubt that the material basis for the other faculties will soon be
forthcoming. The Medical Faculty is first of all to be developed
as a research institute and to concentrate on making the country
healthy, a most important item in the work of development.
Teaching on a large scale will only become important later on.
As a number of highly competent scientific workers have already
signified their readiness to take up appointments at the University,
the establishment of a Medical Faculty seems to be placed
beyond all doubt. I may add that a special fund for the University,
entirely distinct from the general fund for the development
of the country, has been opened. For the latter, considerable
sums have been collected during these months in America,
thanks to the indefatigable labors of Professor Weizmann and
other Zionist leaders, chiefly through the self-sacrificing spirit
of the middle classes. I conclude with a warm appeal to the Jews
in Germany to contribute all they can, in spite of the present
economic difficulties, for the building up of the Jewish home in
Palestine. This is not a matter of charity but an enterprise
which concerns all Jews and the success of which promises to
be a source of the highest satisfaction to all.