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THEODOR See also: modern See also: political
See also: Zionism (q.v.), was See also: born in See also: Budapest on the and of May 1860,
survive the initiation of the somewhat embittered " territorial" controversy
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He died in the summer of 1904, amid the consternation of supporters and the deep grief of opponents of his Zionistic aims
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See also: Herzl was beyond question the most influential Jewish See also: personality of the 19th century
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He had no profound insight into the problem of Judaism, and there was no lasting validity in his view that the problem—the thousands of years' old mystery—could be solved by a retrogression to See also: local See also: nationality
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But he brought home to Jews the perils that confronted. them; he compelled many a " semi-detached " son of Israel to rejoin the See also: camp; he forced the "assimilationists " to realize their position and to define it; his scheme gave a new impulse to "Jewish culture," including the popularization of See also: Hebrew as a living speech; and he effectively roused Jews all the See also: world over to an earnest and vital See also: interest in their See also: present and their future
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Herzl thus See also: left an indelible mark on his See also: time, and his renown is assured whatever be the See also: fate in store for the political Zionism which he founded and for which he gave his See also: life
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