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| Albert Einstein |
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Albert Einstein (pronounced /ˈælbərt ˈaɪnstaɪn/; German: [ˈalbɐt ˈaɪ̯nʃtaɪ̯n] ( listen); 14 March 1879–18 April 1955) was a theoretical physicist. His many contributions to physics include the special and general theories of relativity, the...
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| Meir Kahane |
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Martin David Kahane also known as Meir Kahane (Hebrew: מאיר דוד כהנא, and by the pen-names Benyac and David Sinai and the pseudonym Michael King, 1 August 1932 – 5 November 1990) was an American-Israeli rabbi and ultra-nationalist writer and...
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| Menachem Begin |
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מנחם בגין |
Menachem Begin (help·info) (Hebrew: מְנַחֵם בְּגִין, Polish: Mieczysław Biegun, Russian: Менахем Вольфович Бегин, 16 August 1913 – 9 March 1992) was an Israel politician and the sixth prime minister of the State of Israel. Before the independence,...
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| Solomon Schechter |
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Solomon Schechter (Hebrew: שניאור זלמן שכטר; December 7, 1847- 1915) was a Moldavian-born Romanian and English rabbi, academic scholar, and educator, most famous for his roles as founder and President of the United Synagogue of America, President of...
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| David Ben-Gurion |
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David Ben-Gurion (help·info) (Hebrew: דָּוִד בֶּן-גּוּרִיּוֹן, born David Grün on 16 October 1886, died 1 December 1973) was the first Prime Minister of Israel. Ben-Gurion's passion for Zionism, which began early in life, culminated in his...
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| Theodor Herzl |
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Theodor Herzl (Hebrew: בנימין זאב הרצל, Binyamin Ze'ev Herzl, Hungarian; Herzl Tivadar; also known as חוזה המדינה, Hoze Ha'Medinah, lit. "The Seer of the State" [of Israel] or חוזה מדינת היהודים, Hoze Medinat HaYehudim, lit. "The Seer of the Jewish...
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| Abraham Isaac Kook |
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Abraham Isaac Kook (1865–1935) was the first Ashkenazi chief rabbi of the British Mandate for Palestine, the founder of the Religious Zionist Yeshiva Merkaz HaRav, Jewish thinker, Halachist, Kabbalist and a renowned Torah scholar. He is known in...
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| Max Nordau |
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Max Simon Nordau (July 29, 1849 - January 23, 1923), born Simon Maximilian Südfeld in Pest, Hungary, was a Zionist leader, physician, author, and social critic.
He was a co-founder of the World Zionist Organization together with Theodor Herzl, and...
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| Chaim Weizmann |
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Chaim Azriel Weizmann, Hebrew: חיים עזריאל ויצמן, (27 November 1874 – 9 November 1952) was a Zionist leader, President of the World Zionist Organization, and the first President of the State of Israel. He was elected on 1 February 1949, and served...
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| Louis Brandeis |
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Louis D. Brandeis (November 13, 1856 – October 5, 1941) was a United States Supreme Court Justice from 1916 to 1939. He was born in Louisville, Kentucky to Jewish parents who had immigrated from Europe. He enrolled at Harvard Law School, graduating...
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| Martin Buber |
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Martin Buber (Hebrew: מרטין בובר; February 8, 1878, Franz-Josefs-Kai 45, Innere Stadt – June 13, 1965) was an Austrian-born Jewish philosopher best known for his philosophy of dialogue, a form of religious existentialism centered on the distinction...
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| Zeev Jabotinsky | Vladimir |
Ze'ev Jabotinsky MBE (Hebrew: זאב ז'בוטינסקי), born Vladimir Yevgenyevich Zhabotinsky (Russian: Влади́мир Евге́ньевич Жаботиинский) (born on October 18, 1880, died August 4, 1940) was a Revisionist Zionist leader, author, orator, soldier, and...
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| Asher Ginsberg |
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Ahad Ha'am |
Asher Zvi Hirsch Ginsberg (18 August 1856 - 2 January 1927), primarily known by his Hebrew name and pen name, Ahad Ha'am, (Hebrew: אחד העם, lit. one of the people, Genesis 26:10), was a Hebrew essayist, and one of the foremost pre-state Zionist...
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| Israel Zangwill |
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Israel Zangwill (January 21, 1864 - August 1, 1926) was an English humourist and writer.
Zangwill was born in London on January 21, 1864 in a family of Jewish immigrants from Czarist Russia (Moses Zangwill from what is now Latvia and Ellen Hannah...
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| Arthur Hertzberg |
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Arthur Hertzberg (June 9, 1921 – April 17, 2006) was a Conservative rabbi and prominent Jewish-American scholar and activist.
Avraham Hertzberg was born in Lubaczow, Poland, the eldest of five children, and left Europe in 1926 with his mother and...
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| Ber Borochov |
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Dov Ber Borochov (June 21, 1881 – December 17, 1917) was a Marxist Zionist and one of the founders of the Labor Zionist movement as well as a pioneer in the study of Yiddish as a language.
He was born in the town of Zolotonosha, Ukraine, under the...
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| Joseph Trumpeldor |
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Joseph Trumpeldor (December 1, 1880 – March 1, 1920, Hebrew: יוסף טרומפלדור, Russian: Иосиф Трумпельдор), was an early Zionist activist, notable for helping organize the Zion Mule Corps and bringing Jewish immigrants to Palestine.
Joseph Trumpeldor...
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| Meir Bar-Ilan |
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Meir Berlin, later Hebraized to Meir Bar-Ilan, (1880-1949), born Volozhin, Lithuania, died Jerusalem, Israel) was an Orthodox rabbi and leader of Religious Zionism, the Mizrachi movement in USA and British Mandate of Palestine. He inspired the...
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| Nachman Syrkin |
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Nachman Syrkin or Nahman Syrkin (1868-1924) was a political theorist and founder of Labour Zionism. Born in Russian Empire (now Belarus), Syrkin was influenced by Zionism and socialism in his youth and dedicated himself to synthesising the two...
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| Nathan Birnbaum |
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Nathan Birnbaum (pseudonyms "Mathias Acher", "Anton Skart"), (16 May 1864 – 2 April 1937) was an Austrian writer and journalist, Jewish thinker. His life had three main phases, representing a progression in his thinking: Zionist phase (ca 1883-ca...
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| Leon Pinsker |
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Leon Pinsker (1821-1891) was a physician, a Zionist pioneer and activist, and the founder and leader of the Hovevei Zion, also known as Hibbat Zion (Hebrew: חיבת ציון, Lovers of Zion) movement.
Born Yehudah Leib [Lev Semyonovich] Pinsker in...
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| Max Bodenheimer |
Max Isidor Bodenheimer (Hebrew: מקס בודנהיימר; 12 March, 1865, Stuttgart – 19 July, 1940, Jerusalem) was a lawyer and one of the main figures in German Zionism.
In 1914, he was one of co-founders of German Committee for Freeing of Russian Jews, and...
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| Peretz Smolenskin |
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Peretz (Peter) Smolenskin (Hebrew: פרץ (פטרוס) סמולנסקין; 1842-1885), was a Russian Jewish novelist who wrote in Hebrew.
Peretz Smolenskin was born near Mogilev (Russia). His family came from Smolensk. He joined the rationalists and then the...
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| Berl Katznelson |
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Berl Katznelson (Hebrew: ברל כצנלסון, born 25 January 1887, died 12 August 1944) was one the intellectual founders of Labor Zionism, instrumental to the establishment of the modern State of Israel, and the editor of Davar, the first daily newspaper...
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| Arthur Ruppin |
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Arthur Ruppin (1876-1943) was a Zionist thinker and leader. He was also one of the founders of the city of Tel Aviv, and a pioneering sociologist credited as being "The Father Of Jewish Sociology", directing Berlin's Bureau for Jewish Statistics and...
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| Nahum Goldmann |
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Nahum Goldmann (Hebrew: נחום גולדמן) (July 10, 1895–August 29, 1982) was a Litvish Zionist and founder and longtime president of the World Jewish Congress.
Nahum Goldmann was born in Vishnevo, Russian Empire, a shtetl in the Pale of Settlement (now...
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| Judah Alkalai |
Judah ben Solomon Chai Alkalai (1798 – October 1878) was a Sephardic rabbi in Zemun and one of pioneers of modern Zionism.
Alkalai studied in Jerusalem under different rabbis and came under the influence of the Kabbalah. In 1825 he became Rabbi of...
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| Meir Dizengoff |
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Meir Dizengoff (Hebrew: מאיר דיזנגוף, Russian: Меер Янкелевич Дизенгоф, 25 February 1861- 23 September 1936) was a Zionist politician and the first mayor of Tel Aviv.
Meir Dizengoff was born in 1861 in the village of Yakimovichi (which has since...
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| Chaim Arlosoroff |
Vitaly Viktor Haim Arlosoroff (Hebrew: חיים ארלוזורוב, also known as Haim Arlozorov or Haim Arlozoroff, 23 February 1899 - 16 June 1933) was a notable Zionist and a proponent of the State of Israel and the return of Jews to the Land of Israel....
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| Menahem Ussishkin |
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Avraham Menachem Mendel Ussishkin (14 August 1863 - 2 October 1941) was a notable Zionist leader.
Born in Dubrovna in the Russian Empire (today Dubroŭna in Belarus), Ussishkin graduated as a technical engineer from Moscow Technological Institute. He...
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| Hugo Bergmann |
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Samuel (Schmuel) Hugo Bergman(n), or Samuel Bergman (Hebrew: שמואל הוגו ברגמן; born: December 25, 1883, Prague, died: June 18, 1975, Jerusalem) was a German and Israeli Jewish philosopher.
He emigrated to Palestine in 1920, and founded, together...
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| Richard James Horatio Gottheil |
Richard James Horatio Gottheil (1862—1936) was an American Semitic scholar and Zionist. He was born in Manchester, England, but moved to the United States at age 11 when his father, Gustav Gottheil, accepted a position as the assistant Rabbi of the...
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| Israel Sieff |
Israel Moses Sieff, Baron Sieff (4 May 1889 – 14 February 1972) was a British businessman.
He was educated at Manchester Grammar School and Manchester University. One of the theatres at the Manchester Grammar School is named in his honour.
Sieff was...
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| Felix Weltsch |
Felix Weltsch (October 6, 1884 – November 9, 1964), Dr. jur et phil., was a German-speaking Jewish librarian, philosopher, author, editor, publisher and journalist. A close friend of Max Brod and Franz Kafka, he was one of the most important...
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| Hillary Rodham Clinton |
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Hillary Clinton |
Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (pronounced /ˈhɪləri daɪˈæn ˈrɒdəm ˈklɪntən/; born October 26, 1947) is the 67th United States Secretary of State, serving within the administration of President Barack Obama. She was a United States Senator for New York...
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| Moses Gaster |
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Moses Gaster (September 17, 1856 – March 5, 1939) was a Romanian-born Jewish-British scholar, the Hakham of the Spanish and Portuguese congregation, London, and a Hebrew linguist. He was also the son-in-law of Michael Friedländer, principal of Jews'...
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| Salman Schocken |
Salman Schocken (Hebrew: שלמה זלמן שוקן) (October 30, 1877, Margonin, Poland - August 6, 1959, Pontresina, Switzerland) was a German Jewish publisher and businessman. Salman Schocken was the son of Jewish shopkeeper in Posen. In 1901, he went to...
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| Samuel Mohilever |
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Rabbi Samuel Mohilever (1824-1898), also Shmuel Mohilever, was a pioneer of Religious Zionism and one of the founders of the Hovevei Zion movement.
Mohilever was born in Głębokie (now Hlybokaye, Belarus) and studied in the Volozhin yeshiva.
After...
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| David Wolffsohn |
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David Wolffsohn (Yiddish: דוד וואלפסאן; Hebrew: דוד וולפסון; October 9, 1856, Darbėnai (Polish: Dorbiany), Kovno Governorate - September 15, 1914) was a Jewish businessman and prominent Zionist and second president of the World Zionist Organization...
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| Moshe Leib Lilienblum |
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Moshe Leib Lilienblum (משה לייב לילינבלום) was a Jewish scholar and author born at Keidany, Kovno, October 22, 1843. From his father he learned the calculation of the course of the stars in their relation to the Hebrew calendar (Ḥaṭṭot Ne'urim, i....
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| Zvi Hermann Schapira |
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Zvi Hermann Schapira (Hebrew: צבי הרמן שפירא; 1840-1898) was a Russian mathematician and Zionist. He was the first to suggest the idea of founding a Jewish National Fund to buy land in Palestine.
Born in Erswilken, near Tauroggen, a small town in...
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| Kurt Blumenfeld |
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Kurt Blumenfeld (May 29, 1884 – May 21, 1963) was a German-born Zionist from Marggrabowa, East Prussia. He was the secretary general of the World Zionist Organization from 1911 to 1914. He died in Jerusalem.
He had served as secretary of the German...
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| Yitzchak Yaacov Reines |
Yitzchak Yaacov Reines יצחק יעקב ריינס (Isaac Jacob Reines), (1839-1915) was a Lithuanian Orthodox rabbi and the founder of the Mizrachi Religious Zionist Movement.
Reines, a descendant of Saul Wahl, was born in Karolin (now a part of Pinsk, Belarus...
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| Jacob de Haas |
Jacob de Haas (1872 – 1937) was an UK Chassidic Jew, a journalist and an early leader of the Zionist movement.
De Haas was the secretary of the First Zionist Congress and he introduced Theodor Herzl to the UK in the "Jewish World".
He moved to the...
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| Pinchas Rosen | Felix Rosenblüth |
Pinchas Rosen (Hebrew: פנחס רוזן, born Felix Rosenblüth, 1 May 1887 - 3 May 1978) was an Israeli politician and statesman, and the country's first Minister of Justice, serving three times during 1948-51, 1952-56, and 1958-61. He was also leader of...
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| Otto Warburg |
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Otto Warburg (1859-1938), was a botanist and industrial agriculture expert and an active member of the Zionist Organization, which worked toward the re-establishment of Israel. He later served as the ZO's president from 1911-21.
Otto Warburg was...
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| Hermann Struck |
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Hermann Struck (1876-1944) was a German Jewish artist known for his etchings.
Hermann Struck (Chaim Aaron ben David) was born in Berlin. He studied at the Berlin Academy of Fine Arts. In 1904, he joined the modern art movement known as the Berlin...
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| Ephraim Moses Lilien |
Ephraim Moses Lilien (1874-1925) was an art nouveau painter and photographer particularly noted for his art on Jewish and Zionist themes. He is sometimes called the "first Zionist artist."
Ephraim Moses Lilien (Maurycy Lilien) was born in Drohobycz...
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| Robert Weltsch |
Robert Weltsch (1891, Prague – 1982, Jerusalem) was a journalist, editor and prominent Zionist.
He was editor of the Jüdische Rundschau (Jewish Review), a newspaper published twice a week in Berlin, Germany during the years the Nazis were gaining...
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| Yoel Drubin |
Yoel Drubin was a member of the Bilu group, which a group of Jews that fled persecution in Russia by joining the Political Zionist movement and migrating into Palestine. There, he became an important founder of the city of Rishon LeZion, Israel's...
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| Isaac Rülf |
Rabbi Dr. Isaac (Yitzhak) Rülf (February 10, 1831 - September 18, 1902) was a Jewish teacher, journalist and philosopher. He became widely known for his aid work and as a prominent early Zionist.
Rülf was born in Rauisch-Holzhausen, Hesse, Germany....
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| Alfred Nossig | ||||
| Theodor Zlocisti | ||||
| Selig Eugen Soskin | ||||
| Leopold Kahn | ||||
| Willy Bambus | ||||
| Elias Auerbach | ||||
| Alfred Klee | ||||
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