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David Wolffsohn
Born(1855-10-09)9 October 1855
Darbėnai, Russian Empire
Died15 September 1914(1914-09-15) (aged 58)
Homburg, German Empire
Resting placeMount Herzl, Jerusalem
SpouseFanny (Fruma)
Children1
Zionist Delegation to Jerusalem, 2 November 1898. From left to right: Max Bodenheimer, David Wolffsohn, Theodor Herzl, Moses Schnirer, Joseph Seidener.
Wolffsohn with wife and friends, 1907

David Wolffsohn (Yiddish: דוד וואלפסאן; Hebrew: דוד וולפסון; 9 October 1855 in Darbėnai, Kovno Governorate – 15 September 1914) was a Lithuanian-Jewish businessman, prominent early Zionist and second president of the Zionist Organization (ZO).

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Judaism." Theodor Herzl: (1897–1904) Max Nordau (de facto) (1904–1905) David Wolffsohn: (1905–1911) Otto Warburg: (1911–1921) Chaim Weizmann (1st time): (1921–1931)...

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that was formed in 1897 in Cologne by Max Bodenheimer, together with David Wolffsohn and Fabius Schach. It had attracted 10,000 members by 1914 and was...

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British lawyer and politician David Wolfson, author, book Life in the Fat Lane: The Paul Kimelman Story (1991) David Wolffsohn This disambiguation page lists...

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reduced to three members, Kann, Wolffsohn, and Otto Warburg. He had very cordial and close relations with David Wolffsohn, who replaced Herzl as the Zionist...

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reserved for the leaders of the (World) Zionist Organization, among them David Wolffsohn, Nahum Sokolow, Simcha Dinitz, and Arieh Dulzin. In the same section...

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The Jewish Chronicle

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Chronicle to promote Zionism. The same month, Greenberg, together with David Wolffsohn, Joseph Cowen, Jacobus H. Kahn, and Leopold Kessler, bought the shares...

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West Jerusalem 1919 Personal papers of Theodor Herzl, Nahum Sokolow, David Wolffsohn, Max Bodenheimer, Henrietta Szold, Eliezer Ben Yehuda, Haim Arlosoroff...

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Patrick Geddes Centre for Learning, an educational arm of SHBT. The David Wolffsohn University and National Library, Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Design...

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buildings, including the Einstein Institute of Mathematics and the David Wolffsohn Library. Before the war, Mears had assisted Geddes with the mounting...

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Central Zionist Archives

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figures in modern Zionist history, such as Theodor Herzl, Nahum Sokolow, David Wolffsohn, Max Bodenheimer, Henrietta Szold, Eliezer Ben Yehuda, Haim Arlosoroff...

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as a Hebrew teacher in Cologne in 1893. Together with Moritz Levy, David Wolffsohn and Rahel Apfel, they founded the "National-Jewish Association", from...

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overlooking the Old City of Jerusalem. Labels with pictures of Max Nordau, David Wolffsohn, the Wailing Wall, a map of Palestine, and historical scenes and landscape...

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