Adolf Jelinek, 1882

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Adolf Jelinek was a Viennese chief rabbi and Jewish scholar, author of theological writings. He is considered to be the greatest Jewish preacher of the 19th century. About 200 of his sermons have been published . Jellinek rejected Zionism because, according to him, it confirmed the anti-Semitic belief that Jews are a foreign element in European society. He himself considered Central European Jews to be the bearers of the German language and culture.
In 1882 In reaction to Leon Pinsker's Autoemanzipation! that asserted Jewish emancipation required a homeland of their own outside Europe, Viennese rabbi Adolf Jellinek replied that ‘Jews did not have any national characteristics, as such but "thanks to their universalism they adapt and absorb qualities from the nations in whose midst they are born and educated. .We are at home in Europe and regard ourselves as children of the lands in which we were born and raised, whose languages we speak, and whose cultures make up our intellectual substance. We are Germans, Frenchmen, Magyars, Italians, and so forth, with every fiber of our being.