In 1913, Kohn edited a collection of essays titled Vom Judentum On Judaism , to which prominent Jewish intellectuals from the German-speaking world contributed, and which constituted one of the most important manifestations of Jewish national thought in Central Europe at the time.
From Prague in 1848 and Petrograd in 1867 through Sarajevo in 1914 to the great upheaval in Russia in 1917 and the Soviet triumph over the Slavic lands in 1945, the Pan-Slavists worked ardently to destroy the old order.
They ceased to be the object of history, to become the subjects or actors of history.