Zionism and Anti-Semitism

Zionism and Anti-Semitism
Zionism by Nordau; and Anti-Semitism by Gottheil

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Zionism and Anti-Semitism by Max Simon Nordau, Gustav Gottheil

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1905

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Zionism and Anti-Semitism
Zionism by Nordau; and Anti-Semitism by Gottheil

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eodor Herzl. He published in the autumn of 1896 a concisely written booklet, "Der Judenstaat" (The Jewish State), which proclaimed, with a determination that till then had no precedent, the fact that the Jews are a people who demand for themselves all the rights of a people, and who desire to settle in a country where they can lead a free and complete political existence.

"Der Judenstaat" has become the real starting point of political Zionism,--the starting point, not the programme. Herzl's book is still the subjective work of a solitary thinker who speaks in his own name. Many details in it are literature. It is not easy to draw a sharp boundary line between the sober earnest of the social politician and the imagination of the prophetical poet. The real programme had to be a collective work which was certainly based on Herzl's book, and inspired by Herzl's visions of the future, but which rid itself of all fantastic details, and was built up solely from the elements of reality.

Herzl's book wa