 Prior to and following the war, Sternberg was a leading member of the Hebronia movement, a leading local Zionist movement.In 1920 he addressed 600 visiting Romanian dignitaries (Czernowitz became a part of newly born Romania following the Treaty of Versailles) in Hebrew, marking the first significant attempt to bring the rebirth of the language to the attention of a non-Jewish audience.Following the Treaty of Versailles and Britain’s assuming the mandate for Palestine, Sternberg affiliated himself closely with the Revisionist movement - an affiliation which he was to retain for the rest of his political life.