• Judaism is not a passive religion, but an active life factor which has coalesced with the national consciousness into one organic whole. It is primarily the expression of a nationality whose history for thousands of years coincides with the history of the development of a humanity and the Jews are a nation which, having once acted as the leaven of the social world, is destined to be resurrected with the rest of civilized nations.

    Moses Hess: Judaism is not a passive religion, but an active life factor which has coalesced
with the national consciousness into one organic whole. It is primarily the 
 expression of a nationality whose history for thousands of years coincides with
 the history of the development of a humanity and the Jews are a nation which, 
 having once acted as the leaven of the social world, is destined to be resurrected
with the rest of civilized nations.
    Moses Hess (1943). “The Revival of Israel: Rome and Jerusalem, the Last Nationalist Question”, p.49, U of Nebraska Press