A. D. Gordon

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A. D. Gordon was a pioneering Zionist thinker and activist whose spiritual and practical emphasis on manual agricultural labor profoundly shaped the ideology and ethos of Labor Zionism in early 20th-century Palestine.

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instanceOf Labor Zionist ideologue
Zionist thinker
person
advocated Jewish self-labor in agriculture
rebuilding Jewish national life through physical work
birthDate 1856-06-09
birthPlace Troyanov, Russian Empire
burialPlace Degania Alef
citizenship Russian Empire
commemoratedBy Gordonia youth movement
educational institutions in Israel
streets named after him in Israeli cities
countryOfActivity Mandatory Palestine
Ottoman Palestine
deathDate 1922-02-22
deathPlace Degania Alef
surface form: Degania Alef, Mandatory Palestine
emphasized personal example of manual labor
ethnicGroup Jewish
familyName Gordon
fullName Aaron David Gordon
givenName Aaron
David
ideologicalInfluenceOn Labor Zionism
kibbutz movement
moshav movement
immigratedTo Mandatory Palestine
surface form: Palestine
influenced Berl Katznelson
David Ben-Gurion
Yitzhak Tabenkin
languageOfWork Hebrew
Russian
movement Labor Zionism
Religious Zionism
Zionism
notableIdea religion of labor
return to the soil
sanctification of manual labor
spiritual value of agricultural work
occupation Zionist activist
agricultural laborer
philosopher
writer
philosophicalOrientation existential-spiritual humanism
religion Judaism
stressed unity of humans, nature, and nation through work
viewOnJudaism emphasized ethical and national dimensions over ritual formalism
workedAt Degania Alef
Kinneret Farm
yearOfAliyah 1904

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Labor Zionism associatedWith A. D. Gordon
Hapoel Hatzair foundedBy A. D. Gordon
Hapoel Hatzair hadLeader A. D. Gordon
Second Aliyah (Jewish immigration wave, 1904–1914) hasNotableParticipant A. D. Gordon
subject surface form: Second Aliyah
Aharon David Gordon alternateName A. D. Gordon
Degania Alef hasNotableResident A. D. Gordon