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Steinschneider was a student activist, and founded a secret
society called Unity, which lasted from 1836 to 1842. The
society supposedly was billed as a Zionist group founded in
Prague that would be active in getting Jews out of Austria to
the Holy Land. However, the Austrian police thought
otherwise. They concluded that Unity was a secret society with
destructive and reformist tendencies, and that Steinschneider
as its founder was a dangerous person. Because of this,
Metternich personally inquired to the Berlin police who
whitewashed the group.
The credibility of Steinschneider as a Zionist seems to be
lost when it is known both from Scholem and others that he
was an anti-Zionist, so much so that he stated that Zionism is
more dangerous than anti-Semitism.
In 1847, Moritz applied as Director for the Israel Jacobson
School, named after its Bundist founder, but he was refused.
However, on March 8, 1848, Steinschneider was found on the
streets of Berlin, building barricades to aid the Communist
revolution of 1848. It is interesting to note that on one
occasion, Steinschneider committed an unforgivable sin for
which the Communist, Reform and Conservative clergy never
forgave him. It was important in carrying out their work that no
trace of certain relationships be left for future generations.
Steinschneider broke security on one occasion, which caused
the breakup of his forty-year friendship with Dr Meyer
Kayserling, who before Altmann's Mendelssohn, was
considered to have written the most comprehensive biography
of Mendelssohn. Kayserling published a biography extolling
Ludwig Philippson (1811-1889), who was founder of the first
Jewish weekly in German, and also author of a German
translation of the Bible. Philippson was a Bund political activist
with Reform sympathies. In a review, Setinschneider sinned by
revealing that Kayserling was Philippson's son-in-law. It should
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