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Samuel Mohilever (1824–1898), born in the Russian Empire (Belarus) Religious Zionist, a founder of the Hovevei Zion; Max Nordau (1849–1923), born in the Austrian Empire (Hungary), involved in the foundation of the Zionist Organisation (later World Zionist Organisation) Erna Patak (1871–1955), Austrian social worker and women's activist
Norman Gary Finkelstein (/ ˈ f ɪ ŋ k əl s t iː n / FING-kəl-steen; born December 8, 1953) is an American political scientist and activist.His primary fields of research are the politics of the Holocaust and the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.
However, the British government vetoed it, and the World Zionist Organization's chairman, Chaim Weizmann, dismissed it. [85] Weizmann considered himself, not Ben-Gurion, the political heir to Theodor Herzl. Herzl's only grandchild and descendant was Stephen Norman (born Stephan Theodor Neumann, 1918–1946). Dr. H.
Steven V. Roberts (1943–), Washington pundit and U.S. News & World Report contributor [143] Lester Rodney (1911–2009), journalist who helped break down the color barrier in baseball [144] Josh Rogin (1978/1979–), foreign policy columnist for the Global Opinions section of The Washington Post and a political analyst for CNN [145]
A labor Zionist who later became what is today considered an anti-Zionist, Chomsky has criticized the Israeli settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, which he likens to a settler colony. [215]
Regina Jonas (1902–1944), first female rabbi in the world; Gunther Plaut (1912–2012), Reform rabbi and author, Holy Blossom Temple; Murray Saltzman (1929–2010), Reform rabbi; Abba Hillel Silver (1893–1963), Reform rabbi and Zionist leader; Stephen S. Wise (1874–1949), Reform rabbi and Zionist activist
A local Zionist activist, Jacob Bernstein Kogan, [43] raised money from wealthy Jewish residents and sent telegrams (still quite new in the area) to various world press centers. The Zionist movement sent a young journalist, Hayim Nahman Bialik, who, along with a reporter sent by US news magnate William Randolph Hearst, spent weeks interviewing ...
Herzl and his family, c. 1866–1873 Herzl as a child with his mother Janet and sister Pauline. Theodor Herzl was born in the Dohány utca (Tabakgasse in German), a street in the Jewish quarter of Pest (now eastern part of Budapest), Kingdom of Hungary (now Hungary), to a Neolog Jewish family. [3]