| 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)
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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)
