In 1916, Hebrew educator and Zionist official Ben-Zion Mossinson embarked on a multiyear stay in America following his expulsion from Ottoman Palestine. He joined forces there with other prominent Eastern European and Palestinian Zionist envoys -Shemaryahu Levin, Menachem Sheinkin, and Baer Epshtein, to name a few -all of whom worked as itinerant propagandists, crisscrossing the country in search of potential donors and new recruits. While in America, Mossinson published his brief reflections

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... the history of Zionism and the essence of Jewish culture, 'Land and Language in the Evolution of Zionism,' and delivered speeches based on this article. 'Land and Language,' translated below from the original Yiddish, sheds light on the contours of Zionism in America during the war.