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Herzl - Theodor Herzl and the Foundation of the Jewish State (Paperback)
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Herzl - Theodor Herzl and the Foundation of the Jewish State (Paperback)
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The first biography in more than a generation of the father of
modern political Zionism and in effect the state of Israel. Drawing
extensively on his diaries as well as his published works, this
intellectual biographical follows Herzl's transformation from a
private person into the founder and leader of a political movement
which made the quest for a Jewish state into a player in
international politics. Contrary to the conventional view which saw
the Dreyfus affair as the trigger for Herzl's loss of belief in the
promise of Jewish emancipation, Avineri shows how it was the
political crisis of the Austro-Hungarian Habsburg Empire, torn
apart by contending national movements, which convinced Herzl of
the need for a Jewish polity. In response to the wide resonance for
his 1896 THE JEWISH STATE, Herzl convened the first Zionist
Congress in Basel in 1897, which established the World Zionist
Organization with its representative and elected institutions; this
in turn became the foundation for Israel's democratic political
system. In his efforts to gain international support for a Jewish
state, Herzl met with the Ottoman Sultan, the German Emperor
Wilhelm II, Pope Pius X, British, Russian and German ministers, as
well as an enormous number of other government and public opinion
leaders of most European countries. By the time of his early death
in 1904 at the age of 44, Herzl succeeded in putting Zionism on the
map of world politics, no longer an esoteric idea held by a small
group of Jewish intellectuals in Eastern Europe.
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