| Herzl's Vision: Theodor Herzl and the Foundation of the Jewish State Contributor(s): Avineri, Shlomo (Author), Watzman, Haim (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1629190128 ISBN-13: 9781629190129 Publisher: BlueBridge OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Political - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures - History | Jewish - General |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.8" W x 8.8" (1.00 lbs) 304 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Jewish - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Chronological Period - 1900-1919 |
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| Publisher Description: Theodor Herzl had been a successful Viennese journalist and a less successful playwright with no political ambitions. That changed in 1896, when he published The Jewish State. The following year he convened a Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland. The Congress founded the Zionist Organization in order to establish a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine, recognized and guaranteed by public international law. As Herzl transformed himself in just a few years from writer and editor into the leader of an international political movement, he learned politics and diplomacy on the run--and to great effect. In his efforts to gain broad support for his vision, Herzl met with the Ottoman sultan; the German emperor; the king of Italy; the pope; British, Russian, and German ministers; as well as a great number of other government and public opinion leaders of many European countries. By the time of his early death in 1904 at the age of forty-four, Herzl had transformed Jewish public discourse and made the idea of a Return to Zion into a reality, albeit still a weak one, in international politics. |