"To be or not to be! To be the last Jews or the first Hebrews."
— Zionism

January 1, 1970

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Micha Josef Berdyczewski. The quote is speaking about the annihilation of Diaspora Jewry. The “Old Jew” is the diaspora Jew, doomed to perish, while the “Hebrews” are the “new Jews”: liberated, proud, strong Zionists. Quoted in Not in the Heavens, p. 86