sentences:  the visionary who gave a concrete, practicable platform and framework to political Zionism.However, he was not the first Zionist theoretician or activist; scholars, many of them religious such as rabbis Yehuda Bibas, Zvi Hirsch Kalischer and Judah Alkalai, promoted a range of proto-Zionist ideas before him.Theodor Herzl was born in the "Dohány utca" ("Tabakgasse" in German), a street in the Jewish quarter of Pest (now eastern part of Budapest), Kingdom of Hungary (now Hungary), to a secular Jewish family.