Kadimah (student association)

Kadimah (Hebrew: קדימה‎, lit. Onward) (German: A.V. Kadima Wien) was the first Jewish student association in Vienna, founded many years before Theodor Herzl became the leading spokesman of the Zionist movement.

History[]

The national Jewish and Zionist Kadimah was founded by Nathan Birnbaum together with Moses Schnirer, Ruben Bierer and Peretz Smolenskin in Vienna on 25 October 1882.

Well-known members of Kadimah include Sigmund Freud, Isidor Schalit and Fritz Löhner-Beda.

Members of the Kadimah founded the Jewish studentenverbindung Hasmonaea Czernowitz in 1891, Moriah Vienna in 1893 and Barissia Radautz in 1912.

Kadimah itself was liquidated by then Nazi-ruled official authorities in August 1938.

References[]

Further reading[]

• Ludwig Rosenhek (editor), Festschrift zur Feier des 100. Semesters der akademischen Verbindung Kadimah 1883-1933, Wien 1933
• Harriet Zivia Pass, Kadimah: Jewish Nationalism in Vienna before Herzl, Columbia 1969

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