Nathan Birnbaum

Nathan Birnbaum was an Austrian writer and journalist, Jewish thinker and nationalist. His life had three main phases, representing a progression in his thinking a Zionist phase a Jewish cultural autonomy phase which included the promotion of the Yiddish language and religious phase when he turned to Orthodox Judaism and became staunchly antiZionist.

Nathan Birnbaum was born in Vienna into an Eastern European Jewish family with roots in Austrian Galicia and Hungary. His father, Menachem Mendel Birnbaum, a merchant, hailed from Ropshitz, Galicia, and his mother, Miriam Birnbaum , who was born in northern Hungary , of a family with illustrious rabbinic lineage, had moved as a child to Tarnow, Galicia, where the two met and married.

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