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  Mount Herzl - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mount Herzl, in Hebrew Har Hertzel,(Hebrew: הר הרצל) is a high hill-top in Jerusalem, Israel that is named for, and is the final resting place of, Theodor Herzl, considered to be the founder of modern political Zionism.
From then on, Mount Herzl has served as the national cemetery, where Zionist leaders, the presidents of Israel, prime ministers, and Speakers of the Knesset are laid to rest.
On the northern slope of Mount Herzl is the military cemetery of Jerusalem, and to the west is Yad Vashem, which commemorates the Holocaust.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mount_Herzl   (644 words)

  
 Theodor Herzl   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Herzl at the same time became a writer for the Viennese stage, furnishing comedies and dramas.
Herzl was moved by the Dreyfus affair, a notorious anti-Semitic incident in France; he had been covering the trial of Dreyfus for an Austro-Hungarian newspaper.
Herzl inspired his friends with the idea that men whose aim is to reestablish a nation must throw aside all conventionalities and work at all hours and at any task.
www.bidprobe.com /en/wikipedia/t/th/theodor_herzl.html   (833 words)

  
 Theodor Herzl - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It is widely believed that Herzl was motivated by the Dreyfus Affair, a notorious anti-Semitic incident in France in which a French Jewish army captain was falsely convicted of spying for Germany.
Whereas his first brochure and his first congress address lacked all religious thought, and his famous remark that the return to Zion would be preceded by a return to Judaism seemed at the moment due rather to a sudden inspiration than to deep thought, subsequent events have proved that it was a true prophecy.
Herzl envisioned a Jewish state that was devoid of most aspects of Jewish culture.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Theodor_Herzl   (1134 words)

  
 Centenary of the Death of Theodor Herzl
Herzl attended a scientific oriented German language school, but because of local anti-Semitism, moved in 1875 to another school that was attended mostly by Jews.
Herzl's ideas were received warmly especially in Eastern Europe countries where masses of persecuted Jews were eager to find a way out of the situation.
Herzl was buried in Vienna and his funeral were attended by large crowds of bereaved Jews from all over Europe.
www.bh.org.il /Names/Herzl.asp   (679 words)

  
 Theodor Herzl
Theodor (Binyamin Ze’ev) Herzl, the visionary of Zionism, was born in Budapest in 1860.
Herzl first encountered the anti-Semitism that would shape his life and the fate of the Jews in the twentieth century while studying at the University of Vienna (1882).
Herzl died in Vienna in 1904, of pneumonia and a weak heart overworked by his incessant efforts on behalf of Zionism.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/Herzl.html   (1154 words)

  
 Herzl - the Man and the Dream
Herzl felt that the Jewish problem could simple be eradicated by organized mass conversion of the Jewish youth fused together with affiliation with the socialist movement.
When Herzl began to expound his ideas of a central world organization to mass move the Jews to some as yet unknown territory, he was met with mass resentment by the eastern European Jews who regarded him either as a madman or completely off the target.
It did not matter to Herzl which country or territory was given to the Jews, to Herzl, the main concern was that the Jews be given an area to which they had there own dominion and hence the phenomena of anti-semitism would cease.
www.jewishmag.com /9mag/herzl/herzl.htm   (937 words)

  
 Har Herzl
Theodor Herzl was born in Budapest Hungary in 1860 and as an adult worked as a journalist in Paris.
Herzl was assigned the job of covering the Dreyfus trial in which a Jew was accused and found guilty of army offenses.
Herzl was shocked and angered by the unfair treatment Dreyfus received because he was a Jew and he began to search for a solution to the problem of antisemitism.
www.jafi.org.il /education/noar/sites/mtherzl.htm   (381 words)

  
 Herzl
Binyamin Ze'ev (Theodor) Herzl was born in 1860.
Herzl died in 1904 at the age of 44 and was buried in Vienna.
Herzl's tomb lies on the crest of the mountain range overlooking the Judean hills on one side, and both old and new Jerusalem on the other.
www.doingzionism.org.il /herzl/mt.asp   (480 words)

  
 Great Zionist Leaders I: Theodore Herzl
Herzl was born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1860.
Herzl, whose Jewish connections were weak and tenuous, nonetheless saw in the Dreyfus affair a harsh reminder of the poisonous persistence of anti-Semitism.
Herzl soon decided that all his efforts must be directed toward securing the land of Israel as the Jewish national homeland and that no other country would be acceptable.
www.beth-elsa.org /be_s0314.htm   (1350 words)

  
 Herzl Camp   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
In its first brochure, Herzl Camp's aim was to bring a child closer to Jewish life and the Jewish people… to prepare the child to absorb the content and values of modern Palestine… to enlist the child's interest and help in building of the Jewish national homeland.
Herzl was fortunate to see the return of Rabbi Bill Horn, serving as director n the late 1960s.
Herzl actually had a horseback riding program in the late 1970s, and a computer session was sponsored.
www.herzlcamp.org /history.shtml   (3282 words)

  
 Jewish Social Studies--Theodor Herzl's Diaries as a Bildungsroman
Herzl discovered a similar problem in Galicia, where the Jewish population was torn between conflicting linguistic claims of the German and the Polish language and culture, and where the poverty in which many Jews lived in that underdeveloped province of the empire only added to their misery.
Herzl was so involved in the politics of language and ethnicity in Vienna that, during one of his numerous talks with Austrian ministers, he even prepared a memorandum to the prime minister on the language policy in schools of ethnically mixed regions.
Herzl and his delegation arrived in Jerusalem by train from Jaffa late on Friday afternoon; because of the train's delay, they arrived after sunset and the onset of the Sabbath, and thus decided to proceed on foot to their hotel, despite the fever from which Herzl was suffering.
iupjournals.org /jss/jss5-3.html   (16650 words)

  
 Nurit Reshef: Theodore Herzl
Herzl was shocked by the hatred against the Jewish people, and by the intense anti-Semitism.
Herzl decided to work hard so that the Jews could have a state of their own.
Herzl died in 1904 and asked to be buried in Eretz Israel.
www.bus.ualberta.ca /yreshef/zionism/bzherzlengl.html   (565 words)

  
 The Jewish State - Theodore Herzl 1896- The ideological foundations of Zionism - Complete Dowloadable e-book
Herzl became convinced that the only solution to the Jewish problem was the mass exodus of Jews from their places of residence.
Herzl negotiated with the British regarding the possibility of settling the Jews on the island of Cyprus, the Sinai Peninsula, the El Arish region and Uganda.
Herzl died in 1904 and was buried in Vienna.
www.mideastweb.org /TheJewishState.htm   (1770 words)

  
 Zionism according to Theodor Herzl
First of all, Herzl's utopia can be compared with an existing reality that, to a large extent, was molded by the author's own political activity and by those who continued his work after his death.
Unquestionably, Herzl took no notice of the potential rise of an Arab nationalist movement; yet, it must be admitted, such a movement did not exist as a political force in 1902.
Herzl's somewhat conservative liberal position is very apparent here: Religion has a respected public position in an enlightened, tolerant society.
www.israelblog.org /Articles/Zionism_according_to_Theodor_Herzl.html   (1792 words)

  
 Lenni Brenner: Zionism in the Age of the Dictators (Chap. 1)
Herzl had a ready-made answer to the immigrant wave that he thought would please both the upper class of the indigenous Jews and the ruling class of Western capitalism: he would oblige them by taking the poor Jews off their hands.
Herzl’s “politics” is built on pure diplomacy, which seriously believes that the political history of humanity is made by a few people, a few leaders, and that what they arrange among themselves becomes the content of political history.
Herzl had a vision of himself as a Jewish Cecil Rhodes; it hardly mattered to him where his colony was to be situated, but to most Russian Zionists the movement was an extension of their biblical heritage and Africa meant nothing to them.
www.marxists.de /middleast/brenner/ch01.htm   (6325 words)

  
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Herzl realised that some property owners would, for sentimental reasons, be reluctant to part with their properties and in such cases these people “will be offered a complete transportation to any place they wish, like our own people.
Herzl's grandfather Simon Loeb Herzl had been a member of Rabbi Alkalai's congregation in Semlin and the source of his Zionism was in fact from his grandfather.
Herzl considered that the Zionist movement's diplomatic achievements depended on Turkey, which at that time was in chronic financial difficulties and Herzl's strategy was therefore centred on a plan to gain the approval of the Sultan.
www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/Senate/7854/transfer03.html   (3877 words)

  
 HERZL EXHIBIT   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Herzl was born on May 2, 1860 in Budapest, Hungary, where he was educated in the secular spirit of the German-Jewish Enlightenment.
In 1896, Herzl published "Der Judenstaat" (The Jewish State), in which he argued that the Jewish question was not to be dealt with on a personal level but rather in the arena of international politics.
Herzl was well aware of the profundity and immensity of the mission he so passionately embarked upon.
www.azm.org /herzl1.shtml   (541 words)

  
 TrekEarth | Herzl Photo
The statue of Theodore Herzl is made of a metal sheet and located ontop a water tower on the main entrance to the city of Herzliya.
Born in Budapest, Hungary,1860, Herzl was educated in the spirit of the German-Jewish "Enlightenment." The family moved to Vienna in 1878 after the death of his sister.
Herzl was elected president of the organization and chaired the first six Zionist congresses.
www.trekearth.com /gallery/Middle_East/Israel/photo97870.htm   (804 words)

  
 Herzl   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
It was issued to commemorate the 100th Anniversary of the birth of Theodor Herzl.
Theodor Herzl, (1860-1904), was an Austrian journalist and playwright and the chief leader of the Zionist movement.
Herzl's Jewish State, published in 1896, attracted many people to the Zionist cause, including Max Nordau and Israel Zangwill.
www.commem.com /prod02a.htm   (277 words)

  
 Online Biography of Theodor Herzl (Binyamin Ze'ev Herzl, Zionism and Israel - Biographies
Herzl concluded that anti-Semitism was a stable and immutable factor, which assimilation would not solve.
Herzl then met with Joseph Chamberlain, the British colonial secretary and others, who offered, not Palestine, which Britain did not have, but possibilities of settlement in Cyprus or in east Africa, in Uganda.
Herzl died in Vienna in 1904, of pneumonia, but the essential part of his work was done.
www.zionism-israel.com /bio/biography_herzl.htm   (1328 words)

  
 Theodor Herzl-A Brief Biography & Quotes
Just before Herzl died in 1904, he had succeeded in securing a majority in favor of settling Russian Jews in Uganda as offered by the British.
Herzl REFUSED to accept that Palestine ALONE must be the ZIONIST GOAL, and a state of "armed peace" was declared.
Herzl recognized that anti-Semitism would be HARNESSED to his own--Zionist-purposes." (Righteous Victims, p.
www.palestineremembered.com /Acre/Famous-Zionist-Quotes/Story643.html   (793 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Jewish State: Books: Theodor Herzl   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Herzl was especially influenced by the Dryefuss trial and reasoned that if the Jews could not be accepted in what was then one of the most enlightened and progressive nations of the world then they would never ever really be accepted.
Herzl's vision was as he prophesied realized just fifty years after the book's publication in 1897 when in November 1947 the UN called for partition of Mandatory Palestine into two states, one Jewish and one Arab.
Theodor Herzl was not originally a Zionist nor did he ponder the anti-semitic tendencies that was threatening to perpetually relegate the Jews to a proletariat class.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0486258491?v=glance   (2043 words)

  
 Resources and Articles by Theodor Herzl
Herzl, a writer and a statesman, founded national Zionism and the World Zionist Organization, which elevated the Jewish problem to an international political subject of primary importance.
In the quotes that follow, Herzl speaks on the topics of Zionism, the Homeland, the Uganda Offer, The Jewish State, Language in the State, the Envisioned Altneuland, and the Vatican.
In the quotes that follow, Herzl speaks on the topics of the reaction to publication of The Jewish State, Organizing the Zionist Movement, and the Zionist Congress.
wzo.org.il /en/resources/expand_author.asp?lastname=Herzl&...   (1366 words)

  
 E-Notes: Some Observations on Herzl’s Geopolitics - FPRI
A related FPRI Note is “Theodore Herzl: An Appreciation,” by Harvey Sicherman, August 28, 1997.
Theodor Herzl’s career proves, however, that his background as both a man of the theater and a Jew proved no barrier to access at the highest levels.
Herzl therefore tried to extract from the Old World balance of power a safe haven for the Jews against the coming world of disorder.
www.fpri.org /enotes/history.19980305.strauszhupe.herzlgeopolitics.html   (1017 words)

  
 The Jewish Journal Of Greater Los Angeles
But the Herzl line ended before Israel even became a state, proving perhaps that it easier to will a new nation than a happy family.
When I came across this set of facts, it struck me that the fall of the house of Herzl might be a heavy portent of what was in store for his other progeny, the State of Israel.
While Herzl was otherwise engaged in becoming our national hero, his own family languished — victims of neglect, mental illness and the tragic Jewish history Herzl sought to change.
www.jewishjournal.com /home/preview.php?id=12476   (918 words)

  
 Theodor Herzl, the Founder of Zionism
As he saw it, the best place to establish this state was in Palestine.
While Herzl claimed that the establishment of a "Jewish" state would cure anti-Semitism, he also promoted anti-Semitism to further his cause.
"Herzl regarded Zionism's triumph as inevitable, not only because life in Europe was ever more untenable for Jews, but also because it was in Europe's interests to rid the Jews and relieved of anti-Semitism: The European political establishment would eventually be persuaded to promote Zionism.
www.jewsagainstzionism.com /zionism/herzl/index.cfm   (165 words)

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