Editing Ahad Ha'am (section)

{{short description|Hebrew-language essayist, poet, and critic of early Zionism (1856-1927)}}
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{{Infobox writer
| name         = Ahad Ha'am
| image        = Ahad Haam.jpg
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| birth_name    = Asher Zvi Hirsch Ginsberg
| birth_date    = {{birth date|mf=yes|1856|8|18}}
| birth_place   = [[Skvyra]], [[Kiev Governorate]], [[Russian Empire]]
| death_date    = {{death date and age|mf=yes|1927|1|2|1856|8|18}}
| death_place   = [[Tel Aviv]], [[Mandatory Palestine]]
| occupation   = Essayist, journalist
| movement     = Hovevei Zion
| spouse       = Rivke Schneersohn<ref>Rivke née Schneersohn, daughter of Shneur Zalman Mordechai (brother of Shterna Sarah, wife of Rabbi [[Sholom Dovber Schneersohn|Sholom Dovber]] the fifth Lubavitcher Rebbe), son of R. Yosef Yitzchok of Avrutch, son of R. [[Menachem Mendel Schneersohn|Menachem Mendel]] the Tzemach Tzedeck.</ref><ref name="YIVO">{{cite web|last1=Zipperstein|first1=Steven J.|title=Ahad Ha-Am|url=http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Ahad_Ha-Am|publisher=YIVO|access-date=30 January 2018}}</ref>
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}}

'''Asher Zvi Hirsch Ginsberg''' (18 August 1856 – 2 January 1927), primarily known by his [[Hebrew name]] and pen name '''Ahad Ha'am''' ({{langx|he|אַחַד הָעָם}}, lit. 'one of the people', {{bibleverse|Genesis|| 26:10}}), was a [[Hebrew]] journalist and essayist, and one of the foremost pre-state [[Zionist]] thinkers. He is known as the founder of [[cultural Zionism]]. With his vision of a Jewish "spiritual center" in [[Eretz Israel]], his views regarding the purpose of a Jewish state contrasted with those of prominent figures within the Zionist movement such as [[Theodor Herzl]], the founder of [[political Zionism]]. Unlike Herzl, Ahad Ha'am strived for "a Jewish state and not merely a state of Jews".