His life journey: roughly: Russia > Austria > Germany > Russia > (intermittent visits to Palestine) > England > Palestine.
End of 1898: Ahad Ha’am’s longstanding–advocated themes of Hebrew Culture and Hebrew Language as proposed prime integral components of Zionism, get incorporated into mainstream (Herzlian) Zionist theology/program.
Meaning, a “culturally Jewish state for the Jewish people” as opposed to just a “state for the Jews.” Ahad Ha’am had prevailed.
He was born Asher Hirsch Ginsberg near Kiev, Russia
(b. 1856 Skvyra; d. 1927 Tel Aviv).
Moved to London for 14 years at age 64 in 1908 until 1922….then back to Palestine for his final five years….
[Author – After that little 14–year London interlude, he’s lucky he got all those nice Israeli Zionist streets named after him…]