Achad Ha-Am

1856 - Born in Ukraine; birth of a Jewish scholar and Zionist leader originally named Asher Ginzberg

 

1889 - First published article, LoZeh ha-Derech (This is Not the Way)

 

          - Disagreed with those advocating mass settlement in Palestine

 

          - Believed that what was needed was not “a state of Germans or Frenchmen of the Jewish race”, but a cultural center where “the creative faculties of the nation” would imbue ghetto Jews with pride

 

          - After World War I, he emigrated to Palestine and worked to create this cultural hub without impinging on the rights of the Arabs

 

1927 - Died