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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
Omer Bartov (Hebrew: עֹמֶר בַּרְטוֹב [ʔoˈmeʁ ˈbaʁtov]; born 1954) is an Israeli-American historian. He is the Samuel Pisar Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University, where he has taught since 2000. [1]
Daniel Schorr (1916–2010), journalist who covered the world for more than 60 years, last as a senior news analyst for NPR [156] Sam Seder (1966–), Air America Radio, The Majority Report [157] George Seldes (1890–1995), World War I correspondent, post-war international reporter and media critic [158]
The accusation that Goldhagen was a Zionist ideologue surfaced in two extremely critical essays by Norman Finkelstein which, while offering substantive criticisms of Goldhagen's work, concluded with wildly polemical and unfair speculations Goldhagen's putative role as the chief representative of the (allegedly) politically driven and scholarly ...
Vladimir "Zev" Zelenko was born to Larisa (Portnoy) Zelenko and Alex in Kyiv, Ukraine (then, part of Soviet Ukraine), on November 27, 1973. [5] [6] His father was a taxi driver and his mother worked at a fur factory before working as a computer programmer at Morgan Stanley. [5]
Throughout the first decade of the Zionist movement, there were several instances where some Zionist figures, including Herzl, considered a Jewish state in places outside Palestine, such as "Uganda" (actually parts of British East Africa today in Kenya), Argentina, Cyprus, Mesopotamia, Mozambique, and the Sinai Peninsula. [155]
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.
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]