Theodor Herzl
This week, in Basel, the World Zionist Organization convened to commemorate the 125th anniversary of the First Zionist Congress. What was the original meeting like?
Last month saw the first-ever production of Herzl’s little-known play The New Ghetto in the country he brought into being. The performance was touched with the sublime.
A new interview, published in English here for the first time, reveals the political tradition at work in the Israeli leader’s thinking.
In 1897, the great Zionist writer Aḥad Ha’am argued that Jewish culture, not politics, was the best avenue to bring about a new Jewish state. This week’s podcast revisits his important ideas.
Taking stock of a great Jewish leader.
Reading the Bible as a justification for liberty.
From Herzl to Daniel arap Moi.
Isaac Jacob Reines.
In the hope of reducing Israel to what he sees as its proper dimensions, a historian has cherrypicked facts.
A full English translation of the minutes of the first Zionist Congress is finally available, allowing an engrossing reconstruction of the momentous scene.
Rabbi Judah Solomon Alkalai, the Herzl of Sarajevo.
At each point—1897, 1917, and 1947—one Jewish leader appeared, and showed greatness.
Learning a lesson from Theodor Herzl.
Jewish athletes have won more Olympic medals for fencing than for any other sport.