The Basel Program was drafted by a committee elected on Sunday 29 August 1897[2] comprising Max Nordau (heading the committee),[3] Nathan Birnbaum, Alexander Mintz, Siegmund Rosenberg, Saul Rafael Landau,[4][3][5] together with Hermann Schapira and Max Bodenheimer who were added to the committee on the basis of them having both drafted previous similar programs (including the "Kölner Thesen").[2]