The unresolved rivalry between the great Zionist thinker and the great Zionist strategist still shapes the contending outlooks of many 21st-century Jews.
A portrait of Ahad Ha’am taken from a postcard. Culture Club/Getty Images.
This essay is the fifth in a series by Hillel Halkin on seminal Hebrew writers of the 19th and early 20th centuries. The first four dealt with the novelists Joseph Perl, Avraham Mapu, and Peretz Smolenskin and the poet Yehudah Leib Gordon.
More about: Ahad Ha'am, History & Ideas, Proto-Zionist Writers, Theodor Herzl, Zionism
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