The Wu Xing. I bet you’ve never heard of it right, but in Chinese astrology it describes the five phases that show how everything here on earth interacts and relates. How so, you ask? Well this is how so: you have five elements: wood, fire, earth metal, water. Wood feeds fire, fire creates earth, earth…
Month: September 2021
Nachman Syrkin arrives in New York
After a closer look at travel records it appears that Alexei Sheftel was joined in New York by one of Chaim Weizmann’s closest allies, the Socialist Zionist, Nachman Syrkin, who immediately prior to moving to America had spent much of his time in London and Berlin. Press reports in July and August 1907 see him…