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Theodor Herzl
Theodor Herzl was a Jewish journalist and writer born in Budapest and active in Vienna, regarded as the founder of modern political Zionism. In works such as The Jewish State (1896) he called for a Jewish national homeland, and he convened the first Zionist Congress in 1897. Accounts of the Austro-Hungarian Empire name him among the figures produced by the cosmopolitan culture of Vienna.
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