In Zionist journalism and literature during the First World War, the poetic language of Zionism was transformed into a language of war. Eva Edelmann-Ohler shows that Zionist interpretations of the war refer back to templates that existed before the war and were applied in different discursive arenas. Literary resonances of these interpretative patterns can be seen in the works of Franz Kafka, Arnold Zweig, and Felix Theilhaber.