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Who were some of the proto-Zionist scholars before Herzl?

  • Rabbis Yehuda Bibas, Zvi Hirsch Kalischer and Judah Alkalai

  • Moses Mendelssohn, Baruch Spinoza, Maimonides

  • Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Rosa Luxemburg

  • Noam Chomsky, Elie Wiesel, Philip Roth

Answer

Rabbis Yehuda Bibas, Zvi Hirsch Kalischer, and Judah Alkalai were prominent proto-Zionist scholars who emerged during the late 18th and early 19th centuries, advocating for the Jewish people's return to the Land of Israel and laying the groundwork for the eventual establishment of a Jewish state.
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