Theodor Herzl (/ˈhɜːrtsəl, ˈhɛərtsəl/; German: [ˈhɛɐtsl̩]; Hebrew: תֵּאוֹדוֹר הֶרְצְל Te’odor Hertsel; Hungarian: Herzl Tivadar; Hebrew name given at his brit milah Binyamin Ze’ev (Hebrew: בִּנְיָמִין זְאֵב),[2] also known in Hebrew as חוֹזֵה הַמְדִינָה, Chozeh HaMedinah, lit. “Visionary of the State”; 2 May 1860 – 3 July 1904) was a Austro-Hungarian Jewish journalist, playwright, political activist, and writer who was the father of modern political Zionism. Herzl formed the Zionist Organization and promoted Jewish immigration to Palestine in an effort to form a Jewish state. Though he died before its establishment, he is known as the father of the State of Israel.
While Herzl is specifically mentioned in the Israeli Declaration of Independence and is officially referred to as “the spiritual father of the Jewish State”, i.e. the visionary who gave a concrete, practicable platform and framework to political Zionism, he was not the first Zionist theoretician or activist; scholars, many of them religious such as rabbis Yehuda Bibas, Zvi Hirsch Kalischer and Judah Alkalai, promoted a range of proto-Zionist ideas before him.
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Name(s):
Theodor Herzl
Birth:
May 2, 1860, Pest, Budapest, Hungary
Death:
July 3, 1904, Edlach an der Rax, Austria
Full Name:
Benjamin Ze’ev Herzl
Children:
Hans Herzl,
Margaritha Herzl,
Paulina Herzl
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- Theodor Herzl – Wikipedia
Theodor Herzl (/ˈhɜːrtsəl, ˈhɛərtsəl/; German: [ˈhɛɐtsl̩]; Hebrew: תֵּאוֹדוֹר הֶרְצְל Te’odor Hertsel; Hungarian: Herzl Tivadar; Hebrew name given at his … - Theodor Herzl | Austrian Zionist leader | Britannica
Theodor Herzl, (born May 2, 1860, Budapest, Hungary, Austrian Empire [now in Hungary]—died July 3, 1904, Edlach, Austria), founder of the political form of … - Theodor Herzl | My Jewish Learning
Theodor Herzl was an Austrian Jewish journalist and playwright best known for his critical role in establishing the modern State of Israel. His pamphlet Der … - Theodor (Binyamin Ze’ev) Herzl – Jewish Virtual Library
Theodor (Binyamin Ze’ev) Herzl was the visionary behind modern Zionism and the reinstitution of a Jewish homeland. Herzl was born in Budapest on May 2, … - Who Was Theodor Herzl?: The Israel Forever Foundation
In 1894, reporting for Neue Freie Presse, Herzl attended the trial of Alfred Dreyfus, know as the Dreyfus affair – a notorious anti-Semitic incident in France in which … - Theodor Herzl and the trajectory of Zionism | openDemocracy
Dec 1, 2016 – Theodor Herzl went from being a middle class, European Jew and journalist to a political thinker and activist, determined to build a Jewish state … - Theodor Herzl and the birth of political Zionism (video) | Khan …
he quotes Herzl, writing about the Jews; “We are a people – one people.” I have read that the Jewish people speak Hebrew and another language called Yiddish … - Theodor Herzl, The Jewish State – Internet History Sourcebooks
There were Jew leaders who called for the return of the Jews to Palestine for decades before Theodor Herzl (1860 1904) wrote his influential pamphlet, The … - Zionism and Viennese modernity Aestheticism in Theodor …
Theodor Herzl : writer or politician ? Zionism between fact and fiction. Herzl’s novel Altneuland and its decadent content. Top of page. Full text. - ‘Theodor Herzl’ Review: Prophet of Self-Determination – WSJ
Feb 28, 2020 – On Theodor Herzl’s untimely death in Austria in 1904, a 17-year-old in a Polish village wrote: “The sun is gone, but its light will shine again, the …