Jewish State Herzl Theodor
Jewish State Herzl Theodor It depends on the Jews themselves whether this political pamphlet remains for the present a political romance. The Jews who wish for a State shall have it, and they will…
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Jewish State Herzl Theodor
It depends on the Jews themselves whether this political pamphlet remains for the present a political romance. The Jews who wish for a State shall have it, and they will deserve to have it.--PrefaceTheodor Herzl's passionate advocacy of the founding of a Jewish state grew out of his conviction that Jews would never be assimilated into the populations in which they lived. If the present generation is too dull to understand it rightly, a future, finer and better generation will arise to understand it.
Later, as a newspaper correspondent in Paris, he was shocked and dismayed by the anti-Semitic prejudice surrounding the notorious Dreyfus affair (Herzl said in later years that it was the Dreyfus affair that had made a Zionist out of him). Born in Budapest, Hungary in 1860, Herzl encountered anti-Semitism when he attended a scientific secondary school. Herzl concluded that the