Toi- I have read R’Zvi Hirsch Kalisher’s sefer from cover to cover.Believe me, he was a full proponent of Yidden returning to Eretz Yisreol, to the extent of wanting to do the korban pessach! Incidentally, he also deals with the sholosh shevuos. So, he was a full proponent of real Zionism- which means to return to our homeland and rebuild it. I am pretty sure he did not deal with any sovereignity over the land. It was still part of the Ottoman empire and independence was not thought of. RSR Hirsch, by contrast, based on the little I have read of his teshuvos, actively discouraged the return to Eretz Yisroel and was satisfied to stay in germany and living like a jew there. Very different approaches! What I said in another thread is that neither RSRH Hirsch nor R’Zvi Hirsch Kalisher wrote about political Zionism, a concpet alien to their times. That only came to the fore with Herzl ,who preached for an independent country.
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