Theodor Zlocisti, Am Tor Des Abends: Lieder Vom Heimweg, 1912, in German.
Berlin: Judischer Verlag, . Hardcover, viii, 76 (3) pp., Hard lithographed cover, 20 x 15 cm.
Dedication on endpaper in German, 1914.
Condition: some wear and rubbing to cover; some soiling to endpapers; worm holes to lower corner to most of pages
Weight: 265 gr.
Theodor Zlocisti (born February 17, 1874 in Borzestowo (“Borschestowa”), Karthaus district, West Prussia; died 1943 in Haifa) was a doctor, writer, socialist and one of the first German Zionists.
Theodor Zlocisti joined the Jewish-national Young Israel Association in Berlin in 1892 and was a co-founder of the “Association of Jewish Students at the University of Berlin” in 1895.
In 1900 he received his doctorate in medicine in Berlin. He and his wife were participants in the First Zionist Congress. He was particularly interested in Eastern Judaism and the Yiddish language. In 1912 he was among the initiators of a resolution that called on all Zionists to include emigration to Palestine in their personal life plans. Zlocisti was editor of the works of Moses Hess.
He emigrated to Palestine in 1921 and wrote the fundamental work Climatology and Pathology of Palestine in 1937.
Theodor Zlocisti and Ernst Lewy (1896–1963) were among the initiators of Hitachduth Olej Germania (HOG), the “Association of Immigrants from Germany, ” in Tel Aviv in 1932. In the years that followed, the HOG primarily took care of the occupational reallocation and job placement of German-speaking immigrants and their cultural and social welfare support.