Theodor Herzl
Theodor Herzl
Theodor Herzl, born Benjamin Ze'ev Herzl, also known in Hebrew as חוֹזֵה הַמְדִינָה, Chozeh HaMedinahwas an Austro-Hungarian journalist, playwright, political activist, and writer. He was one of the fathers of modern political Zionism. Herzl formed the World Zionist Organization and promoted Jewish migration to Palestine in an effort to form a Jewish state...
NationalityHungarian
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth2 May 1860
force historic home marvelous palestine people
Palestine is our unforgettable historic home. The very name would be a force of marvelous potency for summoning our people together.
people rehabilitation want
What We want is to make it possible for our unfortunate people to live a life of industry for it is by steady work alone that we hope for our physical and moral rehabilitation. For this reason above all we have undertaken to rally our people around our ideal.
mistake people wish
I incline to an aristocratic republic. This would satisfy the ambitious spirit among our people. We shall learn from the historic mistakes of others in the same way as we learn from our own; for we are a modern nation and wish to be the most modern in the world.
people movement principles
The spirit in which the offer was made must of necessity contribute to improving and alleviating the situation of the Jewish people without our renouncing one iota of the great principles upon which our movement is based.
character people charity
The character of a people may be ruined by charity.
country people wealth
The wealth of a country is its working people.
people demand platforms
Zionism demands a publicly recognized and legally secured homeland in Palestine for the Jewish people. This platform is unchangeable.
believe land people
We believe that salvation is to be found in wholesome work in a beloved land. Work will provide our people with the bread of tomorrow, and moreover, with the honor of the tomorrow, the freedom of the tomorrow.
cause hazard lives organize prepared raised righteous system
Those of us who are today prepared to hazard our lives for the cause would regret having raised a finger, if we were able to organize only a new social system and not a more righteous one.
confronted maintain opponents smallest
Our opponents maintain that we are confronted with insurmountable political obstacles, but that may be said of the smallest obstacle if one has no desire to surmount it.
course experience protection publicly reasonable truly work
Truly we have had enough experience with sufferance and protection which could be revoked at will. Consequently, the only reasonable Course of action is to work for publicly legalized guarantees.
aiming bound home jewish perfectly provide responds salvation succeed universal
Our salvation aiming to provide a home for the Jewish people, responds so perfectly to a universal need that it is bound to succeed in the end.
aware entire lying night period sleep throughout turbulent wild wrote
I wrote walking, standing, lying down, on the street, at the table, at night when it roused me out of sleep... I know now, and was even aware of it throughout this entire period of turbulent productivity, that much of what I wrote was wild and fantastic.
achieved attitude began freer toward understand
In Paris, as I have said, I achieved a freer attitude toward anti-Semitism, which I now began to understand historically and to pardon.