Her·zl
(hĕrt′səl), Theodor 1860-1904. Hungarian-born Austrian founder of Zionism. As a correspondent during the Alfred Dreyfus affair, he concluded that the solution to anti-Semitism was the establishment of a Jewish national state. He founded the Zionist Organization (later, World Zionist Organization) in 1897.
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Herzl
(German ˈhɛrtsəl) n (Biography) Theodor (ˈteːodoːr). 1860–1904, Austrian writer, born in Hungary; founder of the Zionist movement. In The Jewish State (1896), he advocated resettlement of the Jews in a state of their own
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Her•zl
(ˈhɜrt səl, ˈhɛərt-)
n. Theodor, 1860–1904, Hungarian-born Austrian Jewish writer and Zionist.
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