1868 - 1924 NAHMAN SYRKIN (Belarus - USA)
Writer and early leader of Socialist Zionism, he organized the Poale Zion
(Zionist Labor Party - 1903). His ideals of socialism was one of morality
rather then Marxism. Syrkin was a strong supporter of Herzl's Uganda
scheme and temporarily left the Zionist movement. He immigrated to the United States in 1907 and became active in the American Jewish Congress and a member of the Jewish Delegation to the Paris Peace Conference. He returned to the Zionist movement heading the Poale Zion until his death.
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