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Asher Zvi Hirsch Ginsberg (18 August 1856 – 2 January 1927), primarily known by his Hebrew name and pen name Ahad Ha'am (Hebrew: אחד העם, lit. 'one of the people', Genesis 26:10), was a Hebrew journalist and essayist, and one of the foremost pre-state Zionist thinkers.
Ahad Ha’am means in Hebrew “one of the people.” Its use as a pen name by Asher Ginzberg (1856-1927) was at once appropriate and ironical.
Ahad Ha’am believed that the creation in Eretz-Israel of a Jewish cultural center would act to reinforce Jewish life in the Diaspora. His hope was that in this center a new Jewish national identity based on Jewish ethics and values might resolve the crisis of Judaism.
Ahad Ha‑Am,”One of the People”, was the pen‑name of Asher Ginsberg (1856‑1927), Hebrew essayist and Zionist thinker. For Ginsberg, Zionism was important not only because it sought to provide a physical homeland for the Jewish people but because this homeland had the potential of becoming a spiritual center for world Jewry.
- Rabbi Louis Jacobs
Ahad Ha-Am was indisputably the outstanding intellectual and also the prime critic of Ḥoveve Tsiyon. When Theodor Herzl captured center stage in the Zionist movement in 1896, Ahad Ha-Am was responsible for much of the dissent directed at Herzl.
Aḥad Haʿam was an intimate adviser to the Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann during the time that Weizmann was playing a leading role in eliciting from the British government its Balfour Declaration of 1917, a document supporting a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
Asher Zvi Ginsberg–better known as Ahad Ha-am (“One of the Nation”) and also known as the “Agnostic Rabbi”–was horrified by Herzl’s answer to the Jewish Problem. According to Ahad Ha-am, the redemption of the Jewish people would come only from a Jewish cultural and spiritual revival, not the creation of a political state.
