Jacob de Haas

Jacob de Haas
Jacob de Haas
Born	Jacob de Haas; 13 August 1872; London, England
Died	21 March 1937 (aged 64); Mount Sinai Hospital (Manhattan), New York, United States
Nationality	British
Occupation(s)	Journalist, Writer
Known for	Secretary of the First Zionist Congress
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Jacob de Haas (13 August 1872 – 21 March 1937) was a British-born Jewish journalist and an early leader of the Zionist movement in the United States and England. He was the secretary of the First Zionist Congress and introduced Theodor Herzl to the UK via the Jewish World newspaper.^{[citation needed]}

Biography

Jacob De Haas was born in London.^{[citation needed]} In 1896, he became the first member of Hovevei Zion to encourage the movement to adopt the political Zionist program of Theodor Herzl.^[1] At the Third Zionist Congress in 1899, he and L. J. Greenberg were elected as members of the Zionist Organization's Propaganda Committee.^[2]

He moved to the United States in 1902. Theodor Herzl had suggested to Richard Gottheil that he hire de Haas as the new secretary of the Federation of American Zionists (FAZ) to replace Stephen Samuel Wise. De Haas assumed the leadership of the fragmented American Zionist movement. One of his best known relationships was his friendship with Louis Brandeis.^[3]

De Haas died at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City on 21 March 1937 after a lengthy illness.^[4]

Editor of the "Jewish World" (1892-1900), London
Editor of "The Jewish Advocate" (1908-1918), Boston
Author of "Theodor Herzl, a biographical study", New York City, 1927. (2 volumes)
Editor of The Encyclopedia of Jewish Knowledge (1934), New York City and London
Author of History of Palestine: The Last Two Thousand Years (1934), in New York City

^ Cohen, Stuart (14 July 2014). English Zionists and British Jews: The Communal Politics of Anglo-Jewry, 1896-1920. Princeton University Press. p. 39. ISBN 978-1-4008-5359-5.
^ Sokolow, Nahum (1919). History of Zionism : 1600-1918. Robarts - University of Toronto. London : Longmans, Green.
^ Klinger, Jerry (1 November 2007). "Richard Gottheil the Reluctant Father of American Zionism". Jewish Mag. Retrieved 29 October 2024.
^ "Jacob De Haas, Herzl Collaborator, Dead Here at 64". JTA. 23 March 1937. Retrieved 15 January 2015.

Personal papers of Jacob de Haas are kept at the Central Zionist Archives in Jerusalem. The notation of the record group is A404.
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