A. D. Gordon Selected Essays [Hardcover] Gordon, A. D. First Edition, 1938
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In 1904, after having been employed as a clerk for more than twenty years, Aaron David Gordon left his native Russia for Palestine, to begin a new life there as an agricultural laborer. He was then forty-eight years old. In spite of the great hardships involved in adjusting himself to physical toil, Gordon held to his vow that he would do no other kind of work, refusing all offers for sedentary jobs, taking part in the early development of a number of the major Jewish agricultural settlements, and working in the fields with fellow pioneers who were, on the average, at least twenty years younger than he was. In the early hours of each morning, before starting the day's chores, he would write his essays—devotional works filled with echoes of Wordsworth and Tolstoy—about the reclamation of the human spirit and the Jewish people through labor and intimate contact with nature. To his youthful co-workers he became a comforting father in their trials, a prophet who gave words to their vision, and, after his death in 1922, a legend, whose life and work embodied the historical movement in which they had participated.
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In 1904, after having been employed as a clerk for more than twenty years, Aaron David Gordon left his native Russia for Palestine, to begin a new life there as an agricultural laborer. He was then forty-eight years old. In spite of the great hardships involved in adjusting himself to physical toil, Gordon held to his vow that he would do no other kind of work, refusing all offers for sedentary jobs, taking part in the early development of a number of the major Jewish agricultural settlements, and working in the fields with fellow pioneers who were, on the average, at least twenty years younger than he was. In the early hours of each morning, before starting the day's chores, he would write his essays—devotional works filled with echoes of Wordsworth and Tolstoy—about the reclamation of the human spirit and the Jewish people through labor and intimate contact with nature. To his youthful co-workers he became a comforting father in their trials, a prophet who gave words to their vision, and, after his death in 1922, a legend, whose life and work embodied the historical movement in which they had participated.
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In 1904, after having been employed as a clerk for more than twenty years, Aaron David Gordon left his native Russia for Palestine, to begin a new life there as an agricultural laborer. He was then forty-eight years old. In spite of the great hardships involved in adjusting himself to physical toil, Gordon held to his vow that he would do no other kind of work, refusing all offers for sedentary jobs, taking part in the early development of a number of the major Jewish agricultural settlements, and working in the fields with fellow pioneers who were, on the average, at least twenty years younger than he was. In the early hours of each morning, before starting the day's chores, he would write his essays—devotional works filled with echoes of Wordsworth and Tolstoy—about the reclamation of the human spirit and the Jewish people through labor and intimate contact with nature. To his youthful co-workers he became a comforting father in their trials, a prophet who gave words to their vision, and, after his death in 1922, a legend, whose life and work embodied the historical movement in which they had participated.
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