Theodor Herzl Typed Letter Signed on the Need to Expand the Zionist Paper "Die Welt"
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One page in German to his “colleagues” of the Zionist movement. Countersigned by Mamorek, the secretary of the Action Committee. March 3, 1901, Vienna.
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The letter reads, in part: “You know that the ethnic edition of The World arose from the need to get in touch with those classes of society which could not be reached through the German world. It was absolutely necessary to create a periodical which would reliably and faithfully report on Zionist events and needs… It is not in keeping with the dignity of our party and also cannot be in its interest to leave it up to a few supporters to care of the Zionist mission…”
This letter illustrates Herzl’s devotion to the Zionist cause he so painstakingly organized in 1897. Herzl’s concern to reach Jews other than those who spoke German, his persuasive manner of soliciting financial support and his optimism for the Zionist cause is manifest in this circular.
Theodor Herzl, (1860-1904), was an Austrian journalist and playwright and the chief leader of the Zionist movement. The movement’s aim was to set up a Jewish national home in Palestine. Herzl was born in Budapest, Hungary. The growing problem of anti-Jewish feeling in Europe, increased by the Dreyfus case in France, attracted Herzl’s attention. He saw that European Jews had failed to gain social equality even when they had become politically free. So Herzl got the idea of gathering the scattered Jews into a country and a nation of their own. His motives were economic and social, rather than religious. Herzl’s Jewish State, published in 1896, attracted many people to the Zionist cause, including Max Nordau and Israel Zangwill. In 1897, Herzl presided over the first Zionist congress in Basel, Switzerland. In 1901, Britain offered the Jewish people land in British East Africa. Worry about the dispute over this offer injured Herzl’s health and hastened his death.
One page in German to his “colleagues” of the Zionist movement. Countersigned by Mamorek, the secretary of the Action Committee. March 3, 1901, Vienna.
K08928 $7,500
The letter reads, in part: “You know that the ethnic edition of The World arose from the need to get in touch with those classes of society which could not be reached through the German world. It was absolutely necessary to create a periodical which would reliably and faithfully report on Zionist events and needs… It is not in keeping with the dignity of our party and also cannot be in its interest to leave it up to a few supporters to care of the Zionist mission…”
This letter illustrates Herzl’s devotion to the Zionist cause he so painstakingly organized in 1897. Herzl’s concern to reach Jews other than those who spoke German, his persuasive manner of soliciting financial support and his optimism for the Zionist cause is manifest in this circular.
Theodor Herzl, (1860-1904), was an Austrian journalist and playwright and the chief leader of the Zionist movement. The movement’s aim was to set up a Jewish national home in Palestine. Herzl was born in Budapest, Hungary. The growing problem of anti-Jewish feeling in Europe, increased by the Dreyfus case in France, attracted Herzl’s attention. He saw that European Jews had failed to gain social equality even when they had become politically free. So Herzl got the idea of gathering the scattered Jews into a country and a nation of their own. His motives were economic and social, rather than religious. Herzl’s Jewish State, published in 1896, attracted many people to the Zionist cause, including Max Nordau and Israel Zangwill. In 1897, Herzl presided over the first Zionist congress in Basel, Switzerland. In 1901, Britain offered the Jewish people land in British East Africa. Worry about the dispute over this offer injured Herzl’s health and hastened his death.