The Ashkenazi Revolution

301Zionist stand on the ultimate aim of the movement. The major shift atBiltmore was prompted by intense common opposition to the British WhitePaper of 1939, which interpreted the terms of the Mandate in a way that wouldfreeze "the Jewish community to a permanent minority status," and the thencurrentwar negative situation. It was also prompted by the realization thatAmerica would play a larger part in fulfillment of Zionist designs after the war.BiluimBilu (or Palestine Pioneers) was amovement whose goal was the agricultural settlement of the Land of Israel."Bilu" is an acronym based on a verse from the Book of Isaiah ("House of Jacob,let us go [up]"). Its members were known as the Bilu'im.Binyamin Arditi Arditi (July 1,1897 - May 20,1981)was an Israeli politician who served as a member ofthe Knesset for Herut and Gahal between 1955 and 1965.Binyamin Ze’ev HerzlTheodor Herzl (May 2, 1860 – July3, 1904), born Benjamin Ze’ev was an Austro-Hungarian journalist and thefather of modern political Zionism and in effect the State of Israel.BraudesReuben As(c)herBraudes, Reuven Asher Braudes (1851, Wilna - October 18, 1902, Vienna)was a Lithuanian-born Hebrew novelist and journalist.Buber Martin Buber (February 8, 1878 –June 13, 1965) was an Austrian-born Jewish philosopher best known forhis philosophy of dialogue, a form of religious existentialism centered on thedistinction between the I-Thou relationship and the I-It relationship.BundBundism is a Jewish socialist andsecular movement, which originated from the General Jewish LabourBund founded in the Russian Empire in 1897. Bundism was an importantcomponent of the social democratic movement in the Russian empire until itwas violently suppressed by the Communist party after the Russian revolutionof 1917. The Bundist movement continued to exist as a political party inindependent Poland prior to the holocaust (the Polish Bund) when many of itsmembers were killed. After the Second World War, the International Jewish LaborBund was founded.