A DISILLUSIONED LOVE

In the fall of 1929 Hans Kohn resigned from his position in the Zionist Keren Hayesod and stated that he was doing so for reasons of conscience. He could not see a way to bridge the gap between his worldview and that of official Zionism, and therefore he could no longer represent it. Kohn continued his activity in the binationalist Brith Shalom association for an additional year, but in September 1930, he retired from it, too, claiming that the association did not take its own principles seriously. Brith Shalom had compromised where it shouldn’t have, Kohn said, and it a