What a Zionist in Palestine Was

David ben gurion was born in the polish city of plants, 200 miles from racheim wiseman. He's a short guy, maybe about five feet tall, an inch or two taller, but kind of stocky. His social zionism drew on the same kind of volkish romantic ideas that were popular in central europe in the early part of the twentieth century. In his memoirs, he would write, quote, for many of us anti-semitic feeling had little to do with our dedication to semitism.