Abstract
This article examines the Zionist commitment of four rabbis of Hungarian descent who were active in Bohemia and Moravia around 1900. Only their transnational careers provide a satisfactory explanation of their political involvement. Being German speakers, but exposed since childhood to the pressure to acculturate to the Hungarian nation, they felt little affected by the German-Czech antagonism. They tended to conceptualise a specifically Jewish nation faster than some of their colleagues. Some also endeavored to smuggle Zionist ideas back into Hungary.
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