Dictionary of Jewish Biography. Dan Cohn-Sherbok.
ZIONISM — This article is arranged according to the following outline: the word and its meaning forerunners ḤIBBAT ZION ROOTS OF ḤIBBAT ZION background to the emergence of the movement the beginnings of the movement PINSKER S AUTOEMANCIPATION settlement… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Yehoshua Hankin — ( he. יהושע חנקין, born 1864, died 11 November 1945) was a Zionist activist who was responsible for most of the major land purchases of the World Zionist Organization in Ottoman Palestine. Hankin was born in Kremenchug, Ukraine, and moved to… … Wikipedia
FISCHER, JEAN — (1871–1929), Zionist leader in Belgium. Born in Cracow, Fischer emigrated to Belgium in his youth and became a prominent diamond merchant. He was an active supporter of Herzl s political Zionism. During World War I he initiated the transfer of… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
SEDEH NEḤEMYAH — (Heb. שְׂדֵה נְחֶמְיָה), kibbutz in northern Israel, in the Ḥuleh Valley, affiliated with Iḥud ha Kevuzot ve ha Kibbutzim. Sedeh Neḥemyah was founded in 1940 by pioneers from Holland and Czechoslovakia in the vicinity of the then existing Ḥuleh… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
ZIONIST CONGRESSES — ZIONIST CONGRESSES, the highest authority in the Zionist Organization; created by theodor herzl . None of the previous attempts to convene general assemblies of the Jewish national movement, some of which were successful and some abortive,… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
