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Essay from the year 2015 in the subject Didactics for the subject German - Literature, Works, , language: English, abstract: This paper details how Theodor Herzl initiated the serialized publication of Wilhelm Jensen's "Pompeian fantasy" GRADIVA in the Viennese Newspaper NEUE FREIE PRESSE in June/July 1902. This "gothic" novel, published in book form in 1903, came to the attention of Sigmund Freud who famously analysed it in his "Delusion and Dream in Wilhelm Jensen's GRADIVA" (1907).
"In the second half of the nineteenth century a handful of statesmen, empire-builders, adventurers, and visionaries appeared on the stage 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 (1860-1904), 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, semimystical 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: Albert and Edmond de Rothschild, Jewish philanthropists who were understandably hesitant about underwriting a new nation; The Reverend William Hechler, chaplain at the British Embassy in Vienna, who claimed to have discovered a justification for the restoration of the Jews to Palestine in a seventh-century prophecy of the Caliph Omar; Count Philip Michael de Nevlinski, a destitute Polish nobleman and free-lance diplomat who promised to smooth Herzl's way into the Turkish Sultan's court; an Anglo-Jewish professional soldier, Colonel Albert Edward Williamson Goldsmid, the atheist Max Nordau, the Grand Duke of Baden, and Arthur Schnitzler, among others. The man who could note with such conviction in his diary that he had founded the 'Jewish state' after organizing and leading the first Zionist congress in Basel, Switzerland, in 1897 (made up of a few like-minded visionaries who could not always agree even among themselves) and added that 'certainly in fifty [years] everyone will agree' would hardly have been surprised when, fifty years later, on May 14, 1948, the State of Israel was proclaimed. And in this colorful biography Amos Elon tells the incredible story of Theodor Herzl with all the drama and panache of Israel's 'founding father.'"--Jacket.
Theodor Herzl was a powerful, determined man who believed that his life's mission was to establish the Jews in their land. A fascinating biography of Herzl's thoughts and philosophy. Ages 8-12.
The Jewish State (Der Judenstaat) is considered one of the most important texts of early Zionism. As expressed in this book, Herzl envisioned the founding of a future independent Jewish state during the 20th century. According to Herzl after centuries of various restrictions, hostilities and frequent pogroms, the Jews of Europe have been reduced to living in ghettos. The higher class is forced to deal with angry mobs and so experiences a great deal of discomfort; the lower class lives in despair. Middle-class professionals are distrusted, and the statement "don't buy from Jews" causes much anxiety among Jewish people. It is reasonable to assume that the Jews will not be left in peace. Neither a change in the feelings of non-Jews nor a movement to merge into the surrounds of Europe offers much hope to the Jewish people. Herzl argued that the best way to avoid anti-semitism in Europe was to create an independent Jewish state. The book encouraged Jews to purchase land in Palestine, although the possibility of a Jewish state in Argentina is also considered.
"The writing of this book about Herzl's journalistic stories answers a need. Because Herzl's feuilletons have not been republished or even translated into English, it is timely in the words of the English scholar Edward Timms that an effort be made to fill this gap." "This gap is largely due to a misunderstanding about the content of his stories as being of relevance to Herzl's Zionist outlook. People have failed to recognize that Herzl "came to his task with the equipment of the perfect feuilletonist." According to Louis Lipsky, the noted American editor, and also Alex Bein, the biographer of Herzl, the journalistic stories were an apprenticeship preparing him for his Zionist work. To his readers' delight, he, Herzl, was able to capture scenery "in a few clear strokes." The lucidity of Herzl's language persuades Jacques Kornberg to suggest that Herzl's stylistic innovations come "close to the style of today's New Yorker magazine." The great variety of Herzl's interests which he presented to his readers assured him of a constant and faithful readership, who, like the authors Arthur Schnitzler and Stefan Zweig, were charmed by his always jourwitty and at times ironic writings that impress us with their relevance."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
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Biography of the Austrian journalist who became the founder of the modern Zionist movement.