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HERZL, THEODOR (1860-1904) , founder of modern political Zionism
survive the initiation of the somewhat embittered " territorial" controversy. He died in the summer of 1904, amid the consternation of supporters and the deep grief of opponents of his Zionistic aims. Herzl was beyond question the most influential Jewish personality of the 19th century. He had no profound insight into the problem of Judaism, and there was no lasting validity in his view that the problemthe thousands of years' old mysterycould be solved by a retrogression to local nationality. But he brought home to Jews the perils that confronted. them; he compelled many a " semi-detached " son of Israel to rejoin the 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 Hebrew as a living speech; and he effectively roused Jews all the world over to an earnest and vital interest
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