Zionism
Louis Brandeis was not active in the Zionist movement until he was in his late fifties. He was elected Chair of the Provisional Committee for General Zionist Affairs in 1914 and opened the New England Zionist Office with his own money. While he was a Justice of the Supreme Court, he continued to support the Zionist movement, but as a Supreme Court justice, he was restricted from maintaining his other leadership roles.
However, he advised President Franklin D. Roosevelt on Jewish issues and helped establish Ein Hashofet (“well of the judge”), the first American-established Kibbutz in Palestine in 1937. 1 Throughout his life and in his will, many of his charitable donations supported Zionist causes. 2
Zionism Items
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Letter from Louis D. Brandeis to President Woodrow Wilson on February 4, 1920 -
“Marching on to Zion” Sheet Music by Samuel H. Borofsky and Henry A. Russotto -
Photograph of Louis D. Brandeis and Jonas Friedenwald in Palestine -
Scroll inscribed to Louis D. Brandeis from the Golden Book of the Jewish National Fund -
Louis D. Brandeis’s Washington Zionist Circle Membership Card -
Brandeis Centennial Dinner Plate -
“The Jewish Problem: How to Solve it” by Louis D. Brandeis
back to 1 Pasternack, Susan A. Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis: Guided by the Light of Reason: Commemorating the 150th Birthday of the Late Supreme Court Justice and University Namesake. Waltham, MA: Brandeis University, 2007.
back to 2 Boxes 118-121, IV.I.a.1-IV.I.b.3, Louis Dembitz Brandeis Collection, Robert D. Farber University Archives & Special Collections Department, ascdepartment@brandeis.edu, Brandeis University Library.