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This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. People who played important roles in the definition, historical development and growth of the modern Zionist movement: A–B Sarah Aaronsohn (1890–1917), born and died in Ottoman Syria/Ottoman Empire (now Israel), member of the Nili Jewish spy ring (working for the British) Gershon Agron (1890s ...
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Theodor Herzl was the founder of the modern Zionist movement. In his 1896 pamphlet Der Judenstaat, he envisioned the founding of a future independent Jewish state during the 20th century. Part of a series on Jews and Judaism Etymology Who is a Jew? Religion God in Judaism (names) Principles of ...
Theodor Herzl at the Second Zionist Congress in Basel, 1898. In 1897, at considerable personal expense, he founded the Zionist newspaper Die Welt in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, and planned the First Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland. He was elected president of the Congress (a position he held until his death in 1904), and in 1898 he began a ...
Theodor Herzl addresses the Second Zionist Congress in 1898. During the First Zionist Congress, the following agreement, commonly known as the Basel Program, was reached: Zionism seeks to establish a home for the Jewish people in Palestine secured under public law. The Congress contemplates the following means to the attainment of this end:
The Second Zionist Congress, held in Basel, Switzerland (1898). Participant card for the first Zionist congress in Basel, Jewish Museum of Switzerland. [1]The Zionist Congress was established in 1897 by Theodor Herzl as the supreme organ of the Zionist Organization (ZO) and its legislative authority.
Herzl was an Austro-Hungarian Jew and is known as the 'Father of Political Zionism' as he is responsible for starting the World Zionist Organisation and the Zionist Congress. [11] He died in 1904 before seeing the state of Israel established, but is celebrated in modern day Israel as the visionary behind the country's existence.
Two girls wearing banners with the slogan "ABOLISH CHILD SLAVERY!!" in English and Yiddish.Likely taken during the May 1, 1909 labor parade in New York City.. With the influx of Jews from Central and Eastern Europe many members of the Jewish community were attracted to labor and socialist movements and numerous Jewish newspapers such as Forwerts and Morgen Freiheit had a socialist or communist ...
The draft of the objective of the modern Zionist movement submitted to the First Zionist Congress of the Zionist Organization in 1897 read: "Zionism seeks to establish a home for the Jewish people in Palestine secured by law." One delegate sought to replace "by law" with "by international law", [8] which was opposed by others.