Max Nordau

Podcast: Daniel Polisar on the First Zionist Congress, 125 Years Later

This week, in Basel, the World Zionist Organization convened to commemorate the 125th anniversary of the First Zionist Congress. What was the original meeting like?

Daniel Polisar and Tikvah Podcast at Mosaic
Sept. 2 2022 12:01AM

The World’s first Weightlifting Champion Was a Proud Jew

Edward Lawrence Levy, Muskeljude.

Zack Rothbart
Aug. 6 2021 12:01AM

The German Soccer Team That Owes Its Existence to Turn-of-the-20th-Century Zionist Thought

The Berlin Makkabis.

Amit Naor
Feb. 20 2020 12:01AM

The First Days of World Zionism, 122 Years Ago Tomorrow

A full English translation of the minutes of the first Zionist Congress is finally available, allowing an engrossing reconstruction of the momentous scene.

Allan Arkush
Aug. 28 2019 12:01AM

The Most Politically Significant Meeting of Any Group of Jews in the Last 1,800 Years

The story of Theodor Herzl and the First Zionist Congress, convened 120 years ago on this date.

Daniel Polisar
Aug. 23 2017 12:01AM

My Favorite Anti-Semite

In a character in his 1899 novel McTeague, Frank Norris, drawing in part on the work of Jewish thinkers, may have created the most. . .

Elisa New
Oct. 28 2013 12:00AM