ו' בשבט
24.1.2026
Anniversary of the death of Max Nordau
Max Nordau was born on July 29, 1849 in Pest (now part of Budapest), Hungary. He died on 6 Shvat 5683, January 23, 1923. Max Nordau was a doctor, philosopher, speaker, writer, and one of the founders of the Zionist movement. He belonged to a group of educated Jews whose yearnings were not met by Jewish religion and tradition, whereas the emancipation given to the Jews of Central and Western Europe threatened their identity as Jews and presented them with a conflict. In Nordau’s opinion it was possible to solve this conflict by a new, modern, national Jewish self-definition; in other words, freeing the Jewish people by means of sovereignty in its land.
