Theodor Herzl
Stefan Zweig was a reasonable man. But Herzl saw that the age to come was not going to be reasonable.
A new interview, published in English here for the first time, reveals the political tradition at work in the Israeli leader’s thinking.
Why are Israelis so happy, and why do they have so many children?
The late Supreme Court justice’s patriotic reflections.
Karl Lueger inspired Theodor Herzl and Adolf Hitler—in very different ways.
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.
The Austrian capital redeemed.
“There are many people with bad manners, but the Jews stand out.”
We should appreciate Theodor Herzl’s lightning-storm emergence, even if we’ll never really know what caused it.
From the soil of tsarist autocracy, no Jewish political leaders could grow. Herzl, by contrast, exuded the spirit of modern, fin-de-siècle Europe.
What are Jews for?
Though he was blessed with extraordinary charisma, Herzl was filled with inner turmoil. In Zionism, he found a calling that stabilized his fragile persona.
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?