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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
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]
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]
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. [118]
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.
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
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]