Ahad Ha'am
Hebrew-language essayist, poet, and critic of early Zionism (1856-1927)
Ahad Ha'am
Asher Zvi Hirsch Ginsberg (18 August 1856 – 2 January 1927), primarily known by his Hebrew name and pen name Ahad Ha'am (Hebrew: אַחַד הָעָם, lit. 'one of the people', Genesis 26:10), was a Hebrew journalist and essayist, and one of the foremost pre-state Zionist thinkers. He is known as the founder of cultural Zionism. With his vision of a Jewish "spiritual center" in Eretz Israel, his views regarding the purpose of a Jewish state contrasted with those of prominent figures within the Zionist movement such as Theodor Herzl, the founder of political Zionism. Unlike Herzl, Ahad Ha'am strived for "a Jewish state and not merely a state of Jews". In his 1889 article Lo Zeh ha-Derekh ("The Wrong Way"), Ahad Ha'am argued that educational work should precede immediate and indiscriminate Jewish settlement in the land of Israel. He subsequently became the spiritual leader of the secret order Benei Moshe ("sons of Moses") and editor of the monthly literary periodical Ha-Shiloʾah ("The Coming One"...
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