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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 ...
Ahad Ha'am (1856–1927), Russian Empire-born, Cultural Zionist; Theodor Herzl (1860–1904), born in the Austrian Empire, founding father of modern political Zionist movement; Arthur Hertzberg (1921–2006), Polish-born Rabbi, lived in the United States, scholar of Zionism; Moses Hess (1812–1875), French-born philosopher, Labor Zionist
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 idea of returning to Palestine was rejected by the conferences of rabbis held in that epoch. Individual efforts supported the emigration of groups of Jews to Palestine, pre-Zionist Aliyah, even before the First Zionist Congress in 1897, the year considered as the start of practical Zionism. [113]
Outraged by what he considered the dangerous and prejudicial treatment of fellow Jews in Vienna in the late 19th century, Herzl, trained as a lawyer and a prolific writer, established the Zionist ...
State Portrait Name Party Assumed office Left office Notes Georgia: David Emanuel [1] Democratic-Republican: March 3, 1801: November 7, 1801: Emanuel may not have been an openly practicing Jew. As an adult he became a Presbyterian, but modern historians accept he was Jewish. [2] Wisconsin: Edward Salomon [3] Republican: April 19, 1862: January ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When Joe Biden met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his war cabinet during his visit to Israel, the U.S. president assured them: "I don't believe you have to be a ...
Political Zionism was led by Theodor Herzl and Max Nordau.This Zionist Organization approach espoused at the First Zionist Congress aimed at establishing for the Jewish people a publicly and legally assured home in Palestine which, among other items, included initial steps to obtain governmental grants from the established powers that controlled the area.