e proposal
into a mythical proposal for a "Judeopolonia" - Poland
to be ruled by Jews, and it reappeared very often in
postwar anti-Semitic propaganda, as well as in more
recent Polish anti-Semitic ideology, such as the 2001
book, "Judeopolonia," by Andrzej Leszek Szcześniak.
Bodenheimer was chairman of the steering committee
for the first post-war Zionist conference in London. At the 12th
Zionist Congress, 1921 in Karlsbad, Bodenheimer was
elected Chairman of the Kongressgericht - Congress
- of the Zionist Organization, but he resigned from his
office in July 1922. In December 1921, Bodeneimer's official
connection with the
Jewish National Fund ended.
Max Bodenheimer's son, Frederick
Simon Bodenheimer, studied entomology. He came on Aliya
to Palestine after completing his studies in Bonn in
1921, and worked in the entomological station of the
Jewish Agency from 1921 to 1928.
In 1926, Bodenheimer visited Palestine for the third time.
In 1928, the
Council of the Jewish Community of Cologne asked him to organize a special Jewish exhibit
International Press Exhibition "PRESSA".
became disillusioned with the compromising policies of Chaim Weizmann
However, when the Revisionists left the Zionist movement
in 1933, Bodenheimer left the Revisionists.
In April 1933,
following the election of the Nazi government in Germany, Max Bodenheimer moved to Amsterdam.
In March, 1936, Max Bodenheimer moved to Jerusalem at
the age of 71, and began to write his memoirs.
Bodenheimer died in Jerusalem on July 19, 1940.
include many pamphlets and articles on Zionism, as well
as a 1933 drama about the life of Jesus and his
memories, published posthumously first in Hebrew (1952)
then in German (1958) and finally in English, as Prelude
to Israel, in 1963. His daughter Hannah published some
of his correspondence.
March 21, 2009