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More about: History & Ideas, Israel & Zionism, Theodor Herzl
A young secular Viennese writer had an experience 125 years ago that would lead him to change Jewish history forever. He could never explain it. Can anyone else?
Theodor Herzl in Palestine in November 1898. David Wolffsohn, Imagno/Getty Images.
More about: History & Ideas, Israel & Zionism, Theodor Herzl
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