![]() ![]() Now for the first time, I see how narrowly I missed it on frequent occasions.” As to that final idea, he wrote in his diary entry of June 7, 1985: “At least thirteen years were needed in order that I might reach this simple idea (of a Jewish state). Of course, we have to distinguish between Herzl’s concern for the future of the Jewish people and his final idea that it would be best if the Jews would have their own state. (Mitchell First: This was an extremely antisemitic work written in 1881) … In the course of the succeeding years, the question gnawed and tugged at me, it tormented me and rendered me profoundly unhappy.” Indeed, in the first entry in his diary, he wrote: “When actually did I begin to concern myself with the Jewish question? … Certainly, upon reading Dühring’s book. (His many prior ideas to “solve” the Jewish question included: assimilation, socialism and mass conversion to Christianity!) 5, 1895 was just one of the last steps in his thinking about how to improve the condition of his fellow Jews. Herzl wrote in an article in 1899 (see below) that he heard cries of, “À mort! À mort les juifs!-Death to the Jews!” from the mob at the time.īut what is the truth about Herzl’s thinking? Scholars have long realized that the event of Jan. On that date, in a public ceremony, the French military officer Alfred Dreyfus was stripped of his rank after being convicted as a traitor. ![]() When brief versions of Herzl’s life are written, it is usually stated that a dramatic influence on Herzl’s thinking was an event of Jan. He continued it until his death in 1904.Įven before he began his diary-in early May 1895-he already had the idea for a Jewish state and drafted a letter seeking an interview with the philanthropist Baron Hirsch. He also wrote a diary, starting around June of 1895. A few years later, in 1896, he published his Der Jüdenstaat, a vision for the Jews to have their own state and the details of how this could be arranged. In 1891, he became the correspondent in Paris for a prestigious Austrian newspaper. He went to law school and then became a writer of plays. He spent his early years in Pest (now Budapest) and then Vienna. First a little background: Herzl was born in 1860. ![]()
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