“Pan-Asian Zionism” – to our twenty-first century ears the phrase sounds odd, even absurd. And yet the ideological position it represented in the early twentieth century was vigorously championed by a German-speaking Habsburg Jew, Eugen Hoeflich. Why did he think Zionism should take on a pan-Asian orientation? What became of his ideas? And what did he make of “official” Zionism? With me to discuss this fascinating if forgotten figure is the historian and noted specialist of Jewish intellectual history, Dr. Hanan Harif.