Theodor Herzl

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An original and brilliant thesis, exposing a long misunderstoodfigure. A great book." -- Bernard Avishai "Excellent...a highly revealing portrait that demolishes Herzl-the-icon." -- MichaelMarrus "Other biographers... have illuminated aspects of(Herzl's) life, but none has been able to produce the kind of intellectual biographythat we have here. Jacques Kornberg has done an admirable job of plumbing the depthsof Herzl's mind to try to come to an understanding of just why he became a Zionistand why he was literally consumed with promoting Zionist goals." --Cithara "With compassion and critical balance, placing hissubject well within his Austrian milieu, Kornberg analyzes Herzl's rhetoric, tergiversations, and profound ambivalence over his politics and identity." --Choice ..". a masterful display of the sources... " --American Historical Review ..". stimulating, provocative andagreeably iconoclastic... powerful and compelling." -- GermanHistory A novel and provocative explanation of Theodor Herzl'sfounding of Zionism as a way of resolving his personal crisis over his Jewishidentity.

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