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THEODORE HERZL

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THEODORE HERZL

<b>3. THEODORE HERZL</b>
<hr align=left size=5 width=33% color=#778899>(1860-1904). Hungarian-born Austrian Zionist leader. As a journalist covering the Alfred Dreyfus affair in 1894, he determined that the solution to anti-Semitism was the establishment of a Jewish national state. In the pamphlet <i>Judenstaat,</i> (1896), he called for a world council to discuss the question of a homeland for the Jews and convened the first Zionist Congress at Basel (1897). TLS <i>“Herzl”</i> in German, 1p, 4to, n.p., n.d. With translation. In a fund-raising circular Herzl writes, <i>“Constant shekel agitation is for our cause. Our movement is growing by the day. The success of our arduous and hard work is becoming apparent...Yet how can it successfully satisfy all needs, comply with all requirements, open up new territories for the movement, supply it with new resources, if additionally there is the concern of meeting the movement’s daily needs? This concern must be taken off our shoulders and that is possible by commencing systematic and continuous agitation for the shekel...It can only be carried out by all those who are managing branch organizations, are familiar with the local state of affairs, and are in direct contact with the associations. Esteemed like-minded Associate, we are therefore approaching you as the leader of your national organization with this circular letter...requesting you to immediately commence agitation for the shekel and to see to it that the necessary steps are taken...”</i> Boldly signed. File holes at left edge away from text; o/w Fine.

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