{UAH} This Day in Jewish History / 'Uganda plan' prompts shooting of Zionist leader

This Day in Jewish History / 'Uganda plan' prompts shooting of Zionist leader

A student angry over the proposal to set up a Jewish national homeland in Africa narrowly missed Max Nordau.

By David B. Green | 02:27 19.12.13 |  0

To the relief of the opponents of Herzl's Uganda plan, the Congress resolved not only to explore the Uganda settlement option, but to establish an Erez Israel Committee which would simultaneously aim at practical work in the land. At the same session, Kremenetzky expounded the need "for all ranks of the Jewish People to unite in the Fund's work," and succeeded in pushing through a resolution to allow KKL-JNF to start buying land in Erez Israel without waiting for its seed capital to reach £200 thousand.

On the evening of December 19, 1903, a Hanukkah ball in Paris was interrupted by gunshots, as a young man opened fire on Zionist luminary Max Nordau. Nordau was not hit by the bullets, although a bystander was grazed by a shot. As he took aim at the 54-year-old Nordau, the shooter, a 27-year-old student of Russian origin named Chaim Zelig Louban apparently shouted, "Death to Nordau, the East African."

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