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Birnbaum was born in Vienna into an Eastern European Jewish family with roots in Austrian Galicia and Hungary. [3] His father, Menachem Mendel Birnbaum, a merchant, hailed from Ropshitz, Galicia (now Poland), and his mother, Miriam Birnbaum (née Seelenfreund), who was born in Carpathian Rus (now Ukraine), of a family with illustrious rabbinic lineage, had moved as a child to Tarnow, Galicia ...
Nathan Birnbaum in the 1910s, the main thinker and activist behind Diaspora Nationalism.. Golus nationalism (Yiddish: גלות נאַציאָנאַליזם Golus natsionalizm after golus, Hebrew: לאומיות גולוס, romanized: Gālūṯ leumiyút), or diaspora nationalism, is a national movement of the Jewish people that argues for furthering Jewish national and cultural life in centers ...
[ae] Birnbaum, though he militated against a latent trend in Jewish nationalism that "craved to answer antisemitic nationalist chauvinism in kind", still thought race was the foundation of nationality, [57] Jabotinsky wrote that Jewish national integrity relies on "racial purity", [52] [af] that "(t)he feeling of national self-identity is ...
Nathan Birnbaum, a Jew from Vienna, was the original father of Political Zionism, yet ever since he defected away from his own movement Theodor Herzl has become known as the face of modern Zionism. In 1890, Birnbaum coined the term "Zionism" and the phrase "Political Zionism" two years later.
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The Basel Program was drafted by a committee elected on Sunday 29 August 1897 [1] comprising Max Nordau (heading the committee), [2] Nathan Birnbaum, Alexander Mintz, Siegmund Rosenberg, Saul Rafael Landau, [3] [2] [4] together with Hermann Schapira and Max Bodenheimer who were added to the committee on the basis of them having both drafted previous similar programs (including the "Kölner ...
Dropsie College was the first accredited doctoral program in Judaic studies in the world. The Annenberg Research Institute was a center for advanced study in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam founded in 1986 with staff and collections carried over from Dropsie College. The founding director of the Katz Center was David B. Ruderman. [2]
Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning was founded in 1907. Its main benefactor was Moses Aaron Dropsie (1821–1905), [ 4 ] [ 5 ] a wealthy man whose father was Jewish and mother was Christian but who self-identified as Jewish from the age of 14.