Herzl

[ her-tsuhl; English hurt-suhl, hairt- ]

noun

1. The·o·dor [tey, -aw-doh, r], 1860–1904, Hungarian-born Austrian Jewish writer and journalist: founder of the political Zionist movement.

Herzl

/ ˈhɛrtsəl /

noun

1. HerzlTheodor18601904MAustrianHungarianWRITING: writerPOLITICS: Zionist 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

Example Sentences

As Theodor Herzl, the father of modern Zionism, once said, "If you will it, it is no dream."

From The Daily Beast

He will then visit the Western Wall and lay a wreath at the Holocaust memorial at Mount Herzl.

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Were he alive, Herzl might have grounds to sue—but the open-minded journalist would know better.

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Meanwhile, Im Tirtzu claims to represent the "centrist stream in Zionism" dating back to Theodor Herzl.

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Herzl thought he could stop it by moving Jews out of its path and into their own land.

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Theodore Herzl returned to his people because the other people did not want him.

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It is difficult of course to say what would have been my view-point had I met Theodore Herzl twenty or more years ago.

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Indeed, until the time of Herzl all the most prominent protagonists of Zionism were Christians.

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With the advent of Herzl, however, Zionism was no more a matter of domestic concern only.

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Herzl was not so distant from his people as many of the Russian Zionists at first surmised.

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