ABSTRACT
The socioeconomic structure of the Jewish people differs radically from that of other nations. The term luftmensch was Max Nordau’s contribution to our literature, and it expresses all too well the severance of Jewish labor from the soil. To be sure, no nation’s economic life is founded on land alone. All economic life consists of both elements, land and labor. Although the elements of soil and nature are decreasing in the economic life of other peoples, they are absent from Jewish production, which is built exclusively on human labor. The economic structure of Italian Jewry is one of the most abnormal and unproductive. Zionism is the only movement capable of introducing reason, order, and discipline into Jewish life. Zionism is the only answer to the economic and historic need of the Jewish people.
