Theodore Herzl
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Theodore Hers was born in Budapest in 1860. Herzl was educated in the spirit of Jewish/German Enlighten. At a young age Herzl was considered a good writer, but chose to study law at the university of Vienna. After Herzl graduated from the university of Vienna he worked in Germany and produced philosophical stories and plays during the time he worked in Germany he married and had 3 children. During his stay in Germany his interest for law faded and he became the Paris correspondent for the Vienna Free Press a liberal newspaper. He took most of his time and turned towards the Jewish problems of anti-Semitism. Herzl believed that this problem could be simply solved if the Jewish mass of youth rallied together and stop the socialist movement. Herzl then organized the World Zionist Organization which was aimed at wealthy Jews to support his ideas.
When Herzl began to expound his ideas of a central world organization to mass move the Jews to some as yet unknown territory, he was met with mass resentment by the eastern European Jews who looked at him either as a madman or completely off the target. Herzl avoided the comments and went along with his ideas. It didnt matter to Herzl which country or territory was given to the Jews Herzls main focus was that the Jews be given an area to which they had there own kind and there own theories and thoughts and for the anti Semitism to end. Slowly the initial rejection by the established Zionist organization began to come down and he began to increase in popularity amongst the masses. Many people admired his ideas on organization and financial banking that would pay for the Jewish settlement.Herzl organized the first Zionist Congress in 1897, he was later named the president of the newly formed World Zionist Organization. He tried to find a place for the Jews to live in but was opposed to many of the places he suggested and didnt really work anything out. In 1904 Herzl died from heart aliment and never got to see his dream of Zionism . After his death Zionism was strongly influenced throughout the world and a lot more people supported it.
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