| Description |
xxi, 275 pages : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Jeruscholajim -- Emancipation and its discontents -- Budapest, Vienna, Paris -- Between political fiction and political action -- From the Jewish question to The Jewish state : the revival of Jewish public space -- The constituent assembly : the Basel Congress -- Altneuland : a plan, not a fantasy -- El-Arish, Kishinev, Uganda : from desert mirage to harsh realities -- Toward the end : Rome and Jerusalem. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Theodor Herzl, a successful Viennese journalist, and Paris correspondent, followed the Dreyfus Affair, a notorious anti-Semitic incident in which a French Jewish army captain was falsely convicted of spying for Germany, which caused him to reject his early ideas regarding Jewish emancipation and assimilation, and to believe that the Jews must remove themselves from Europe and create their own state. In 1896, he published Der Judenstaat [The Jewish State], attracting international attention. Transforming himself into a a political leader, he convened a Zionist Congress in Basel and founded a Zionist Organization. He met the Ottoman sultan, Kaiser Wilhelm II on several occasions, the pope, and secured an offer from the British government to facilitate a large Jewish settlement in East Africa. By the time of his death at age forty-four, he had made the idea of a Return to Zion into a reality, albeit only a weak one.-- from publisher data and dust jacket. |
| Subject |
Herzl, Theodor, 1860-1904.
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Zionists -- Austria -- Biography.
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Zionism -- History.
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Jewish nationalism -- History -- 19th century.
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Jewish nationalism -- History -- 20th century.
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| Added Author |
Watzman, Haim, translator.
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| Added Title |
Hertsel. English
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Theodor Herzl and the foundation of the Jewish state |
| Translation Of: |
Translation of: Avineri, Shlomo. Hertsel. Yerushalayim : Merkaz Zalman Shazar le-toldot Yiśraʼel, [2007] 9789652272300 (DLC) 2007559440 (OCoLC)181625275 |
| Other Editions: |
Reproduction of (manifestation) : Avineri, Shlomo. Herzl : Theodor Herzl and the foundation of the Jewish State. London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2013. |
| ISBN |
1933346981 |
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9781933346984 |
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