How did Theodor Herzl, an assimilated German nationalist in the 1880s, suddenly in the 1890s become the founder of Zionism? This novel offers an explanation in Herzl's struggle to resolve his own personal conflict over his Jewish identity. It charts Herzl's intellectual development against the background of Austrian political history.
Über den Autor
JACQUES KORNBERG teaches history at the University of Toronto. The author of articles on German intellectual history and on Zionism, he is editor of At the Crossroads: Essays on Ahad Ha-Am.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgments
Introduction: From Austro-German Assimilationist to Zionist
Part I
Herzl in the 1880s
1. Herzl as Assimilationist
2. Herzl as German Nationalist
3. Herzl, an Ambivalent Jew
Part II
Vienna in the 1890s
4. Herzl and Vienna, the New Capital of Antisemitism
Part III
Herzl in the 1890s
5. The Reabsorption of the Jews
6. The New Ghetto
7. The Jewish State
8. The Dreyfus Legend
Abbreviations
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
Klappentext
"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.
