ABSTRACT
The refusal of a Teuton "corps student" to give "satisfaction" to an offended Jewish youth was no more regarded as a proof of Jewish inferiority and a cause for depression or suicide. Even the distinctly Christian atmosphere that prevails in the colleges of the old universities could not prevent the Jewish student from being reached by the tide of Jewish nationalism and being filled with an ambition to help in the work of Jewish regeneration. The raising of the Jewish national flag caused many of these men to lift up their eyes, to straighten their backs, and to form a new conception of their relation to their neighbours. The word "Jewish" assumed for them a new meaning. The rise of the Jewish nationalist movement at the end of the nineteenth century was therefore bound to make the strongest appeal to the Jewish academic youth and to the members of learned professions in the Jewish communities of Eastern and Central Europe.
