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HEBREW>>>>In the second half of the nineteenth century a handful of statesmen, empire-builders, adventurers, and visionaries appeared on the stags of European history and proceeded to reshape the world in their own image�Cavour, Bismarck, Disraeli, Gladstone, Karl Marx. The results of their inspired, herculean undertakings are still manifest after three-quarters of a century, two world wars, the Cold War, and countless political and social upheavals. Perhaps the most colorful and unusual of these visionaries�but in the light of history, certainly not the least consequential�was Theodor Herzl (1880-1904), the founder of modern Zionism. Until 1895 Herzl was a boulevardier, a moderately successful playwright, and the Paris correspondent for Vienna's leading newspaper, Die Neue Freie Presse�in short, he was an assimilated nineteenth-century Jew. Then the Dreyfus Affair awakened him to the dangers of anti-Semitism. In a feverish, semi mystical state he wrote a pamphlet that was to affect the lives of literally millions of people, The Jewish State: An Attempt at a Modern Solution of the Jewish Question. More importantly, he set afoot the plans that led to the modern state of Israel. Herzl devoted the last nine years of his life to his vision of creating an independent, sovereign Jewish state, traveling back and forth across Europe and the Middle East, negotiating with European sovereigns, statesmen, financiers, Jewish leaders, and even the Sultan of Turkey. Although Herzl is undoubtedly the central figure in this colorful drama, the secondary characters are hardly less unusual:

In the second half of the nineteenth century a handful of statesmen, empire-builders, adventurers, and visionaries appeared on the stags of European history and proceeded..

Author:Amos Elon (AS-IS)
Type:Softcover

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