Nahum Sokolow

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Nahum Sokolow

Nahum Sokolow (1859-1936) was a Zionist

Zionism

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leader, author, translator, and a pioneer of Hebrew

Hebrew language

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journalism

Journalism

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Born to a rabbi

Rabbi

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nic family in Wyszogród

Wyszogród

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, Russia

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(now Poland

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), Sokolow began writing for the local Hebrew newspaper

Newspaper

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, HaTzefirah, when he was only seventeen years old. He quickly won himself a huge following that crossed the boundaries of political and religious affiliation among Polish Jews, from secular intellectuals to anti-Zionist Haredim, and eventually had his own regular column.

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Nahum Sokolow (1859-1936) was a Zionist

Zionism

Hebrew language

Journalism

Rabbi

Wyszogród

Wyszogr?d [] is a town in Poland, in Masovian Voivodship, in Plock County, by the Vistula River. The population of Wyszogr?d is 2,793 inhabitants ....
, Russia

Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
(now Poland

Poland

Newspaper

Europe

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and North America

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to promote the Zionist cause. During World War I

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, he lived in London

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, where he was a leading advocate for the Balfour Declaration of 1917, in which the British

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

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government declared its support for a Jewish homeland in Palestine

Palestine

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. In 1931 he was elected President of the World Zionist Congress, and served in that capacity until 1935, when he was succeeded by Chaim Weizmann

Chaim Weizmann

Chaim Azriel Weizmann, , was a Zionism leader, President of the World Zionist Organization, and the first President of the State of Israel. He was Israeli presidential election, 1949 on 1 February 1949, and served until his death in 1952....
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Sokolow was a prolific author and translator. His works include a three-volume history of Baruch Spinoza

Baruch Spinoza

Baruch or Benedict de Spinoza was a Netherlands Philosophy of Iberian Jews origin. Revealing considerable scientific aptitude, the breadth and importance of Spinoza's work was not fully realized until years after his death....
and his times, and various other biographies. He was the first to translate Theodor Herzl

Theodor Herzl

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's utopia

Utopia

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n novel Altneuland
The Old New Land

The Old New Land is a utopian novel published by Theodor Herzl, the founder of political Zionism, in 1902. Outlining Herzl?s vision for a Jewish state in the Land of Israel, Altneuland became one of Zionism's establishing texts....
into Hebrew, giving it the name Tel Aviv (literally, "An Ancient Hill of Spring"). In 1909, the name was adopted for the first modern Hebrew-speaking city: Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv

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He died in London in 1936. The kibbutz

Kibbutz

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Sde Nahum

Sde Nahum

Sde Nahum is a kibbutz in the Beit She'an Valley in northern Israel. Located around 4 km northwest of Beit She'an, it falls under the jurisdiction of Beit She'an Valley Regional Council....
is named for him.

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in the Jewish Encyclopedia
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