Theodor Herzl

Also known as Tivadar Herzl, Benjamin Ze’ev Herzl

father of modern political Zionism (1860–1904)

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Theodor Herzl was a journalist, lawyer, writer, and politician born in Pest, Budapest, in 1860. He was educated at the University of Vienna and resided in Vienna. His citizenship included Austria–Hungary and Hungary. He spoke German, Hungarian, and Hebrew. His birth name was בִּנְיָמִין זְאֵב הֶרְצֵל.

Herzl died in Reichenau an der Rax on 3 July 1904 from pneumonia due to natural causes. He is buried in Döbling, Mount Herzl. His notable works include Altneuland and Der Judenstaat. He is described by sources such as the Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron and the Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition. His archives are held at The Central Zionist Archives.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 2 May 1860
Died: 3 July 1904
Works: 293

Top works

Altneuland
Lo stato ebraico
Το εβραϊκό κράτος
Vyežah-nuevah ṭyerah
Der Judenstaat

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: Austria
Active from: 1994

Official site Discogs Stream

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 39
Total plays: 215

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

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· 2014 · cited 19,553x
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Quotes

“Were I to sum up the Basel Congress in a word — which I shall guard against pronouncing publicly — it would be this: At Basel, I founded the Jewish State. If I said this out loud today, I would be answered by universal laughter. Perhaps in five years, certainly in fifty, everyone will know it.”
“If you will, it is no legend...”
“Let me tell you that my friend and I do not discriminate between humans. We do not ask what race or what religion he is from. He has to be a human being. That is all that's important for us.”
“Palestine is our ever-memorable historic home. The very name of Palestine would attract our people with a force of marvellous potency. If His Majesty the Sultan were to give us Palestine, we could in return undertake to regulate the whole finances of Turkey. We should there form a portion of a rampart of Europe against Asia, an outpost of civilization as opposed to barbarism.”
“A scheme such as mine is gravely imperilled if it is opposed by "practical" people. Now "practical" people are as a rule nothing more than men sunk into the groove of daily routine, unable to emerge from a narrow circle of antiquated ideas. At the same time, their adverse opinion carries great weight, and can do considerable harm to a new project, at any rate until this new thing is sufficiently strong to throw the "practical" people and their mouldy notions to the winds.”

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Works in European collections

6 objects attributed to Theodor Herzl, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

The Jewish State

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Encyclopedic overview

Theodor Herzl (2 May 1860 – 3 July 1904) was a Hungarian Jewish journalist and lawyer who was the father of modern political Zionism. Herzl formed the Zionist Organization and promoted Jewish immigration to Palestine, which, in the late 19th century was part of the Ottoman Empire, in an effort to form a Jewish state. Due to his Zionist work, he is known in Hebrew as Chozeh HaMedinah (חוֹזֵה הַמְדִינָה), lit. 'Visionary of the State'. He is specifically mentioned in the Israeli Declaration of Independence and is officially referred to as "the spiritual father of the Jewish State".

Herzl was born in Pest, then part of the Kingdom of Hungary, to a prosperous Neolog Jewish family. After a brief legal career in Vienna, he became the Paris correspondent for the Viennese newspaper Neue Freie Presse. Confronted with antisemitic events in Vienna, he reached the conclusion that anti-Jewish sentiment would make Jewish assimilation impossible, and that the only solution for Jews was the establishment of a Jewish state. In 1896, Herzl published the pamphlet Der Judenstaat, in which he elaborated his visions of a Jewish homeland. His ideas attracted international attention, and rapidly established him as a major figure in the Jewish world.

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Theodor Herzl