One-leaf draft in the handwriting of Gershom Scholem, for the essay "Why We Became Zionists". July 1931. Hebrew.
A short article composed by Gershom Scholem, analyzing Zionism's failures and its crisis following the 1929 riots. The essay's content refers, among other things, to the President of the Zionist Organization Nahum Sokolow, the beginnings of the split in the Zionist Movement, the Jews of the Diaspora, and other topics.
The essay was published in the book: "Another Thing, Chapters of Legacy and Revival (2)". Tel Aviv: Am Oved (1989).
[1] leaf, approx. 29 cm. Good condition. Emphases, erasures and some corrections in the text body (in Scholem's handwriting); two corrections in a different hand. Horizontal folding line. Light creases and small tears to margins. Small stain to upper margins, without damage to text.