על פרשת דרכים At the Crossroads (Selected Essays)
Author: first_name: אחד העם Ahad
last_name: Ha'am
Language: Hebrew
Year: 1895

Asher Zvi Hirsch Ginsberg (1856 - 1927), primarily known by his Hebrew name and pen name Ahad Ha'am (literally "one of the people"), was a Hebrew essayist and one of the greatest pre-state Zionist thinkers. With his secular vision of a Jewish "spiritual center" in Palestine he confronted Theodor Herzl. Unlike the founder of political Zionism he strove for "a Jewish state and not merely a state of Jews."<br /><br />In 1889 his first article criticizing practical Zionism, called "Lo ze haddereckh"