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The Complete Dianes

of Theodor Herzl

The Complete Diaries of HERZL

THEODOR

Edited by

Raphael Pata Translated by

HARRY ZOHN

VOLUME II

H E R Z L PRESS AND New York

THOMAS

YOSELOFF

London

© 1960 b y T h e Theodor Herzl Foundati on, Inc.

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 60-8594 Thomas Yoseloff, Publisher 1 1 East 36th Street New York 16, N . Y.

Thomas Yoseloff Lid. 1 2 8 New Bond Street London W. 1 , England

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Contents Volume 11

Book Four

July

22,

18g6-June

10,

1897

433

Book Five June

11,

1897-October 5,

1898

Book Six

October 5 , 1898-April

2 1 , 1899

561

Book Four Begun o n July 21, 1896 On the way t o Carlsbad

July

22,

Carlsbad

Newlinski was waiting for me with the following information: 1) T h e Prince of Bulgana will receive me here. 2) T h e Turkish ambassador i n Vienna categorically denies the news about Jewish colonists being persecuted i n Palestine. 3) Jewish circles are intriguing against me i n Yildiz Kiosk. I , for m y part, told h i m about m y trip. I said I seemed t o myself like an officer who goes into battle with raw recruits and has t o stand behind them with a gun t o keep them from running

away. I called the attitude of Edmond Rothschild i n particular dis turbing, because the entire combination now depended on him. However, I said, i t was by n o means a foregone conclusion that

in the end he would n o t go along with us after all. Newlinski said that this news discouraged him for the first time in this matter. He had not known that my troops were that bad.

July

22,

Carlsbad

I am telegraphing t o Edmond Rothschild:®

The Turkish ambassador a t Vienna writes: “You can deny categorically the false news item, evidently

fabricated with malicious intent, that the Turkish authorities have expelled existing Jewish colonists or refused t

Table of contents :
Contents
Introduction
1. Becoming Theodor Herzl
2. Our Man in Paris
3. The Organizational Genius
4. Reaching for the Stars
5. If You Will It, It Is Still a Dream
Epilogueː The View from Mount Herzl
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

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theodor herzl

Theodor Herzl The Charismatic Leader DEREK PENSLAR

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Introduction, 1 1. Becoming Theodor Herzl, 11 2. Our Man in Paris, 47 3. The Organizational Genius, 85 4. Reaching for the Stars, 125 5. If You Will It, It Is Still a Dream, 163 Epilogue: The View from Mount Herzl, 201 Notes, 211 Acknowledgments, 227 Index, 229

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Introduction

The life of Theodor Herzl (1860–1904) was as puzzling as it was brief. How did this cosmopolitan and assimilated Eur

John Cooper

Herzl, Theodor

Theodor Herzl ; Hungarian: Herzl Tivadar; Hebr.: Binyamin Ze ev Hertsel) was a writer and journalist. He formed the World Zionist Organization in 1897, and is considered the father of modern political Zionism. His reading of the Bible was above all modern, secular, and contrary.

Herzl grew up in a family of assimilated Jews in Budapest. His grandfather, a practicing Orthodox Jew, had married the daughter of a rabbi and became leader of his synagogue, but his father did not adhere strictly to the religious commandments and prohibitions. Still, his family maintained Jewish traditions, and in his childhood Herzl and his father would go to synagogue on Sabbaths and holidays. Moreover, his family followed certain Jewish practices, especially the Passover Seder, with great festivity.

From the age of six, Herzl attended the Israelite normal school in Pest. But in an autobiographical statement sent to The Jewish Chronicle in 1898, the leader of the Zionist movement described his earliest memory of the school as "a caning which I received from the master, because I did not know the details of the Exodus of the Jews from Egypt." With reference to his commitment to Zionism, Herzl continued that "at the present time a great many school-masters want to give me a caning, because I recollect too much of that Exodus from Egypt" (Herzl 1898: 20).

And indeed, Herzl's use of the Bible is clearest with regard to the figure of Moses and the exodus. Despite the secular character of Herzl's Zionism, he was still highly susceptible to emphasizing analogies between the goals of Zionism and the biblical narrative of Moses, the exodus from Egypt and the four-decade sojourn in the wilderness. Even though Herzl once implied in a letter that he did not possess the "faith of the forefathers," that it is irrelevant which confession one belongs to, and that God represents a "splendid abbreviation for an en