Theodor Herzl, Austrian journalist, playwright, and father of modern political Zionism (born 1860)

Theodor Herzl

Father of modern political Zionism (1860–1904)

Theodor Herzl was an Austro-Hungarian Jewish journalist and lawyer who was the father of modern political Zionism. Herzl formed the Zionist Organization and promoted Jewish immigration to Palestine in an effort to form a Jewish state. Due to his Zionist work, he is known in…