"Nothing better reflects the new character of this secularism than the two theoreticians of Zionism and Bundist socialism, Theodore Herzl and Vladimir Medem. Both came from assimilated backgrounds...and neither was fluent in the languages which their movements promoted. Yet both came to advocate Jewish autonomy and a radical concept of Jewish secularism which diverged completely from the eighteenth century maskilim's vision and intent: the possibility of being a committed, unassimilated Jew without being observant. And this concept had great power."
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Irena Klepfisz "Khaloymes/Dreams in Progress: Culture, Politics, and Jewish Identity" (1990)
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Theodor Herzl
1860 – 1904
österreichischer Schriftsteller, Journalist und Begründer des Zionismus
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