A Crown for Zion (German: Eine Krone für Zion) is an 1898 anti-Zionist polemic written by the Austrian-Jewish writer Karl Kraus.
About
As with many Viennese Jews living during the late 1800s and early 1900s, Kraus was opposed to the Zionist movement. The essay mocks Theodor Herzl, one of the founders of the Zionist movement. The word "Krone" is a pun, is it can refer to a crown or a krone in the German language. In the essay, Kraus claims that antisemitism is the essence of the Zionist movement, that Zionist goals are antisemitic, and that Jewish Zionists are "Jewish antisemites". Kraus accused Herzl and the Zionist movement of supporting antisemites by promoting the idea that Jews have multiple loyalties, and promoting their idea that Jews should leave their countries.
See also
Jewish assimilation
Zionist antisemitism
References
External links
Bibliographic Metadata, Goethe University Frankfurt
Eine Krone für Zion / Karl Kraus., National Library of Israel
"A crown for Zion" : Karl Kraus and the Jews., National Library of Israel
Karl Kraus and the Jewish question: assimilation, language, and persecution in Vienna, 1874-1936, thesis from Florida International University