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Theodor Herzl

Altneuland ( Old-New Land) 1902

The Jewish State

EARLY LIFE

  • A novel set in the idealistic and utopian Jewish state in Israel.
  • Born May 2, 1860 in Budapest to a secular Jewish family
  • Awarded a Doctorate of Law from the University of Vienna in 1884
  • He married his wife Julie and had 3 children
  • Published in 1896, Herzl argued that the problem was not individual, but national
  • He declared that the Jews would only gain acceptance by having their own state
  • He wanted to have the great powers at the time acknowledge this new idea
  • Herzl viewed this as a international issue that needed to be dealt within the arena of international politics
  • A Zionist vision for the Jews on establishing the state of Israel
  • He included detailed plans on how he saw the country's political structure, immigration, fundraising efforts, diplomatic relations, social laws and relations between religion and state.

1896

1902

1894

1860

1st Zionist Congress

Impact

Dreyfus Affair

  • Seen as the father of the Zionist movement
  • The (World) Zionist Organization pushed for the creation of Israel
  • WZO still urges for Israel to be a state for the unification of all Jewish people
  • Held in late August, 1897
  • Herzl elected president
  • Created "Basal Program," goals for the Organization
  • the strengthening of the Jewish community
  • the push for Jewish settlement in Palestine
  • In 1894, Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a jewish officer in the french army, was wrongly accused of treason.
  • Herzl was present during the trial and witnessed mobs of people shouting "Death to the Jews".
  • He realized that the only solution was a mass immigration of Jews to a land that they could call their own.
  • The beginnings of political Zionism

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