The Founding Of Zionism

Key Person	Year	Published Work	Main Idea
Avraham Mapu	1853	The Love of Zion	Longing of Jewish people for their ancestral homeland
Moses Hess	1862	Rome and Jerusalem	Europe's welcome to Jews is tenuous, and Jews should seek return to homeland
Leon Pinsker	1882	Auto-Emancipation	Jews are not accepted in European host countries, and are urged to seek national rebirth
Nathan Birnbaum	1890	Self-Emancipation	Coined the term Zionism referring to a movement to re-create a national Jewish home in Israel
Chaim Nachman Bialik	1892	El Hatzipor      (To The Bird)	Poem on longing for return to Zion
Chaim Nachman Bialik	1898	Mikra'ei Zion (Assemblies of Zion)	Poem of hope and expectation of return to Zion
Theodor Herzl	1896	The Jewish State	Jewish State will usher an end to rabid anti-Semitism everywhere
Theodor Herzl	1897		Launched Zionism as political movement and convened first Zionist Congress
Theodor Herzl	1902	Altneuland	Envisions idyllic future Jewish state
Ze'ev Jabotinsky	1923	Samson Nazorei	Ideal of active, courageous, Jewish warrior

I am reading the book Israel: "A Concise History of a Nation Reborn" by Daniel Gordis.

I've prepared this summary of the founding of Zionism, which I have briefly summarized above.

Hope this is helpful to those interested in the origins of the founding of the modern State of Israel. 

(Credit Graphic: Andy Blumenthal)

The Founding Of Zionism