Theodor Herzl
For Herzl, Zionism was not merely about providing an escape from anti-Semitism.
The train ride Theodor Herzl called “torture.”
What Ernest Renan and Theodor Herzl held in common.
The story of Theodor Herzl and the First Zionist Congress, convened 120 years ago on this date.
A Jewish state or a new Jew?
Ahron Marcus.
The Zionist debate between the two men is old but still urgent. Can their disparate visions be reconciled? Do they need to be?
The unresolved rivalry between the great Zionist thinker and the great Zionist strategist still shapes the contending outlooks of many 21st-century Jews.
Not part of any colonial agenda.
Aḥad Ha’am on Zionism and Israel.
And got him an audience with the Kaiser.
Despite the transparent justice of Theodor Herzl’s vision of a “nation through its faith,” Europeans still deny Israel’s right to be recognized as a Jewish state.
How my countrymen gave up the hope for real peace, and how they can get it back.
The Middle East is imploding. America is pulling back. Time for a new regional strategy.