Zionism - Wikipedia
zionism | Search Online Etymology Dictionary
"1896, "movement for forming (later supporting) a Jewish national state in Palestine," from German Zionismus (from
Zion + Latin-derived suffix -ismus; see
-ism); the German word is first attested 1886 in "Selbstemancipation," by "Matthias Acher" (pseudonym of Nathan Birnbaum (1864-1937))."
Nathan Birnbaum - Wikipedia
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Nathan Birnbaum (
Hebrew: × ×Ş×ź ×‘×™×¨× ×‘×•×™×ť; pseudonyms: "Mathias Acher", "Dr. N. Birner", "Mathias Palme", "Anton Skart", "Theodor Schwarz", and "Pantarhei"; 16 May 1864 – 2 April 1937) was an
Austrian writer and journalist,
Jewish thinker and
nationalist.
[1][2] His life had three main phases, representing a progression in his thinking: a
Zionist phase (c. 1883 – c. 1900); a Jewish cultural autonomy phase (c. 1900 – c. 1914), which included the promotion of the
Yiddish language; and a religious phase (c. 1914–1937), when he turned to
Orthodox Judaism and became staunchly
anti-Zionist."
When did he become an antisemite? When he invented the word Zionism, or when he became anti-Zionist?