biography
pronunciation:
[hertsl]
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| lived:
| (1860–1904)
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| biography:
| Zionist leader, born in Budapest, Hungary. He trained as a lawyer in Vienna, then became a journalist and playwright. After reporting the Dreyfus trial (1894), he was converted to Zionism, and in the pamphlet Der Judenstaat (1896, The Jewish State) he called for a world council to discuss the question of a homeland for the Jews, convened the first Zionist Congress at Basel (1897), and became the first president of the World Zionist Organization. |
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