Viteles, A History of the Co-operative Movement in Israel, Book One: The Evolution of the
Co-operative Movement (London: Vallentine, Mitchell & Co., 1966); Henry Near, The Kibbutz
Movement: A History, vol. 1, Origins and Growth, 1909–1939 (Oxford: Oxford University Press,
1992).
Joseph Trumpeldor: “Like Kropotkin, I believe that only a very large, territorially ex-
tensive commune leads to anarchy”; Meir Yaari: “[In the movement’s early years] we were what
is known as anarchists.... We believed in a prototype of future society in which the indi-
vidual’s life would be free of coercion, while being autonomous”; Manes Sperber: “[we were
interested] in the anarcho-communist theory of Kropotkin, the revolutionary prince, far more
than in Marxism”—all cited in Horrox, A Living Revolution, 35, 45.
Ibid., 71.
Gustav Landauer, “The United Republics of Germany and their Constitution,” in All
Power to the Councils! A Documentary History of the German Revolution of 1918–19, ed. and
trans. Gabriel Kuhn (Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2012), 199–204.
Ibid., 201.
PU 146.
Landauer, “Anarchic Thoughts on Anarchism,” in Revolution and Other Writings: A
Political Reader, ed. and trans. Gabriel Kuhn (Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2010), 90.
Cited in Charles Maurer, Call to Revolution: The Mystical Anarchism of Gustav Lan-
dauer (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1971), 83; Landauer, “Sind das Ketzergedanken?”
in Philosophie und Judentum: Ausgewählte Schriften, Band 5, ed. Siegbert Wolf (Hessen: AV
Verlag, 2012), 362–368.
Gershom Scholem, From Berlin to Jerusalem: Memoirs of My Youth, trans. Harry Zohn
(New York: Schocken, 1980), 53.
Landauer to Buber, February 5, 1918, LMB 230.
Landauer to Buber, May 10, 1918, LMB 231.
“Appendix II: Exchange of Letters: Goldmann-Landauer,” in Horrox, A Living Revolu-
tion, 133–137.
A point stressed in GLPU 52–53.
Horrox, A Living Revolution, 43–44. This speech was published as “Der heimliche Füh-
rer.” This was a special issue of Ha’poel Ha’tzair’s journal dedicated to Landauer.
Gordon himself reportedly returned to Palestine from the conference claiming to have
“found his ideas” in Landauer’s writings; Michael Tyldesley, No Heavenly Delusion? A Com-
parative Study of Three Communal Movements (Liverpool, UK: Liverpool University Press,
2003), 48.
Ratzabi, Between Zionism and Judaism, 413; cf. GLPU 73; Horrox, A Living Revolution,
However, Arlosoroff later opposed Brit Shalom on economic segregation, immigration, and
the Jewish-majority question; Zachary Lockman, Comrades and Enemies: Arab and Jewish
Workers in Palestine, 1906–1948 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996), 100–101.
Buber, “Toward the Decision,” LTP 41.
Buber, “At This Late Hour (April 1920),” LTP 46. The perception of these riots as po-
groms was reinforced by the prominent involvement of Christian Palestinians; Morris, Righ-
teous Victims, 95.
Buber, “A Proposed Resolution on the Arab Question (September 1921),” LTP 61.
Twenty-six years later, Buber wrote that while this editing process was “an utterly
simple and routine matter” for politicians, it “appalled [him] to such an extent that [he] still
[hadn’t] recovered from the shock.” Buber, “Resolution on the Arab Question of the Twelfth
Zionist Congress,” LTP 65.