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Herzl: Theodore Herzl and the Foundation of the Jewish State by Shlomo Avineri
Category: Judaica
Drawing extensively on his diaries as well as his published works, this intellectual biographical follows Herzl's transformation from a private person into the founder and leader of a political movement which made the quest for a Jewish state into a player in international politics. Contrary to the conv ...Show more
Herzl: Theodore Herzl and the Foundation of the Jewish State by Shlomo Avineri
Category: Biography Memoir
Born in Budapest in 1860, Theodor Herzl was a daydreamer who aspired to follow the footsteps of De Lesseps, builder of the Suez Canal. He did not succeed in the sciences and developed a successful career in journalism. As the Paris correspondent for NEUE FREIE PRESSE, Herzl followed the Dreyfus Affair, ...Show more
Herzl's Vision: Theodor Herzl and the Foundation of the Jewish State by Professor of Political Theory Shlomo Avineri (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Category: Biography
Theodor Herzl had been a successful Viennese journalist and a less successful playwright with no political ambitions. That changed in 1896, when he published "The Jewish State." In response to the wide resonance that the book received, Herzl convened the first Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland, in ...Show more
Karl Marx - Philosophy and Revolution by Shlomo Avineri
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
Karl Marx (1818-1883)-philosopher, historian, sociologist, economist, current affairs journalist, and editor-was one of the most influential and revolutionary thinkers of modern history, but he is rarely thought of as a Jewish thinker, and his Jewish background is either overlooked or misrepresented. He ...Show more
The Making of Modern Zionism: The Intellectual Origins of the Jewish State by Shlomo Avineri
Category: Popular History
For eighteen centuries pious Jews had prayed for the return to Jerusalem, but only in the revolutionary atmosphere of nineteenth-century Europe was this yearning transformed into an active political philosophy: Zionism. In The Making of Modern Zionism, the distinguished political scientist Shlomo Aviner ...Show more
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