 In his article on the Jewish question and Palestine in 1881, as well as in his later "O Vozrozhdenii Yevreiskavo Naroda" (Odessa, 1883), which includes the former and other essays of a similar character, he clearly and soberly presents the anomalous position held by the Jewish people among the nations in which they lived and logically demonstrates their hopelessness except through national independence.Lilienblum also wrote