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  Theodor Herzl
Herzl was stirred by sympathy for the misery of Jews under persecution, but he was even more powerfully moved by the difficulties experienced under conditions of assimilation.
Herzl believed that the humanitarian hopes which inspired men at the end of the 18th and during the larger part of the 19th centuries had failed.
Herzl, however, succeeded in assembling several congresses at Basel (beginning in 1897), and at these congresses were enacted remarkable scenes of enthusiasm for the cause and devotion to its leader.
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  Mount Herzl - Karr.net   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Mount Herzl, in Hebrew Har Hertzel (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.
216.92.11.22 /encyclopedia/Mount_Herzl   (629 words)

  
 Mount Herzl, Jerusalem
Ruppin Road in Jerusalem runs into Herzl Boulevard (Sderot Herzl), which leads to a military cemetery with the remains of Israeli soldiers killed since 1948 and to Mount Herzl, which commemorates the founder of Zionism.
The remains of Theodor Herzl, who died in Austria in 1904, were brought to Israel in 1949, a year after the foundation of the independent Jewish state for which he had called, and buried in a free-standing sarcophagus on Mount Herzl.
In the park on Mt. Herzl is the Herzl museum, with personal belongings and his study room with original furniture.
www.planetware.com /jerusalem/mount-herzl-isr-jr-jmhz.htm   (188 words)

  
 Theodor Herzl - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Theodor Herzl (or Tivadar Herzl) (May 2, 1860 – July 3, 1904) was an Austrian Jewish journalist who became the founder of modern political Zionism.
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.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Theodor_Herzl   (1076 words)

  
 Centenary of the Death of Theodor Herzl
Herzl was born on May 2, 1860, in Budapest, Hungary, Austrian Empire (now in Hungary), into a middle class Jewish family.
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 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)

  
 Mount Herzl - Definition, explanation
Mount Herzl, in Hebrew Har Hertzel, 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.
www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/m/mo/mount_herzl.php   (423 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 witnessed mobs shouting “Death to the Jews” in France, the home of the French Revolution, and resolved that there was only one solution: the mass immigration of Jews to a land that they could call their own.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/Herzl.html   (1154 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Israel buries two children of Zionism founder Theodor Herzl in Jerusalem   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Herzl, a European journalist and author, was deeply affected by the Dreyfus Affair in 1895, when a Jewish military officer in France was wrongly convicted of espionage.
Herzl, who died in 1904 at age 44, was buried in Vienna, but specified in his will that he wanted his body, and those of his close relatives, moved to the Jewish state he hoped would one day be created.
Herzl's youngest daughter, Trude, died in a Nazi concentration camp during the Holocaust at the age of 50.
www.usatoday.com /news/world/2006-09-20-herzl-children_x.htm   (794 words)

  
 Theodor Herzl - MSN Encarta
Theodor Herzl (1860-1904), Jewish writer and journalist, founder of modern political Zionism, who is regarded as one of the greatest influences in the movement that led to the creation of the state of Israel.
Herzl was born in Budapest, Hungary, on May 2, 1860.
In 1949 his remains were transferred to a mountain west of Jerusalem that was named Mount Herzl; it is also the site of a memorial to the Jewish victims of World War II.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761552844/Theodor_Herzl.html   (437 words)

  
 HERZL, Theodor
Herzl was born in Budapest, Hungary, on May 2, 1860.
Until that time he had believed that gradual assimilation of the Jews with the Christian peoples of Europe was the best solution to anti-Semitism; the repercussions of the court-martial convinced him that the problem could be solved only if the Jews became a separate national group with sovereignty over their own territory.
In 1949 his remains were transferred to a mountain west of Jerusalem that was named Mount Herzl; it is also the site of a memorial to the Jewish victims of World War II.
www.history.com /encyclopedia.do?articleId=211840   (793 words)

  
 MyJewishLearning.com - History & Community: Theodor Herzl: Leader of Politic
Herzl did not live to see the British government's conferral of a charter, such as it was, in 1917.
Herzl has been described as a practical dreamer, and it is true that, with considerable organizing ability, he worked for the practical realization of his aim, succeeding in winning many Jews to co-operate with him in, at the time, a seemingly impossible task.
Herzl died, at the early age of 44, in Vienna, where he was buried.
www.myjewishlearning.com /history_community/Modern/Overview_The_Story_17001914/Zionism/Herzl.htm   (777 words)

  
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Forty-five years later, in 1949, Herzl's remains and those of his relatives were brought to Israel and reinterred in a burial site in Jerusalem, whose location had been determined by a special state commission.
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 (see Tour 35).
www.jerusalem.muni.il /english/sys/tour/vir_tour/show/show_tour.asp?tour_id=119   (471 words)

  
 Israel Studies--Mount Herz: The Creation of Israel's National Cemetery
Originally established as a "Herzl room" in 1938 on the premises of the National Institutions (the Zionist headquarters) in Jerusalem, it was relocated for the occasion of the ceremonial inauguration of the tomb on the 100th anniversary of Herzl's birth in 1960.
Mount Herzl is laden with Zionist meanings, while the Western Wall, as the relic of the Second Temple, evinces not only the destruction of Jewish independence, but was the focus of messianic yearnings that were formulated in terms of religious tradition.
The construction of Mount Herzl, and later of nearby Yad Vashem in western Jerusalem, was unavoidable in the wake of the territorial division of Jerusalem in the 1948 war.
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Benjamin Ze'ev (Theodor) Herzl was born in 1860 in Budapest, Hungary.
Between 1891 and 1895 Herzl served as the Parisian correspondent of the Austrian newspaper Neue Freie Presse where he covered the Dreyfus Affair, a notorious anti-Semitic incident in France in which a French Jewish army captain was falsely convicted of spying for Germany.
Herzl did not live to see the rejection of the Uganda plan; he died in Vienna in 1904 of heart failure at age 44.
www.ynetnews.com /articles/0,7340,L-3393335,00.html   (463 words)

  
 Theodor Herzl Summary
In Herzl's view, effective assimilation of the Jews would be impossible because of the long history of prejudice and the competition between the non-Jewish and Jewish middle classes.
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.
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.bookrags.com /Theodor_Herzl   (1619 words)

  
 Science Fair Projects - Mount Herzl
Mount Herzl, in Hebrew Har Hertzel, 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.
To the east rises the Mount of Olives, where Jews have been buried for the past three thousand years.
Between these two poles, two other peaks mark the Jerusalem skyline: Mount Moriah, the religious focal point of the city, where the Temple stood; and Givat Ram, Israel's center of government...The tour of Mount Herzl is a visit to a cemetery and a memorial site." [1]
www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Mount_Herzl   (562 words)

  
 Theodor Hertzl: Zionism Creator, Goyim Hater
Herzl, who died in 1904 at age 44, was buried in Vienna, Austria, but specified in his will that he wanted his body, and those of his close relatives, moved to the Jewish state he hoped would one day be created.
Herzl's youngest daughter, Trude, died in a Nazi concentration camp during the Holocaust, and her body has never been found.
Herzl was buried in a State funeral on Mount Herzl, named after him, in August 1949, a little after the founding of the State.
thezionazireport.org /hertzl_bio.htm   (1818 words)

  
 ERETZ Magazine
Some 76 years after their death, Theodor Herzl's children will be brought to Jerusalem and buried next to him, in accordance with his wishes.
It took the dogged tenacity of a dreamer from the Negev to force the government of Israel to bring Herzl's family to rest on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.
Paulina, Herzl's eldest daughter, had heart disease and was also mentally ill. She was hospitalized again and again.
www.eretz.com /NEW/survey18a.shtml   (833 words)

  
 HERZL EXHIBIT   (Site not responding. Last check: )
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.
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 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   (391 words)

  
 "Who Is That Bearded Man? - Forward.com"
The $3.2 million project, on Mount Herzl, was funded mostly by the Jerusalem Foundation and, strangely (and sadly, the new Herzlians probably would add), by the Austrian government.
Herzl’s legacy, the DNA he has passed down to Israelis, is not contained in direct and detailed prescriptions for the contours of the state.
Herzl knew it was crazy and that his dream went against all practical considerations, but he pursued it as if it was entirely possible and within his grasp.
www.forward.com /articles/who-is-that-bearded-man   (1250 words)

  
 WowEssays.com - Theodore Herzl
Theodore Herzl was born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1860.
Herzl, whose Jewish connections were weak, 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.
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 For Zionism's Heirs, a Test Of Will - washingtonpost.com
Herzl died in 1904, 44 years before his followers realized his goal of establishing a democratic Jewish state in historical Palestine.
Among their early acts was to bring Herzl's remains from Vienna for reburial in a mountaintop cemetery here named in his honor.
But many Israelis opposed the burial of the Herzl children, which comes at a time when the government is working to keep the ideas of the early Zionist leaders fresh for a new generation, including the establishment in recent years of Herzl Day.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/20/AR2006092001994_pf.html   (941 words)

  
 EJP | News | Western Europe | Bodies of Herzl's children flown from France to Israel
Herzl’s third child, daughter Trudi, is believed to have died at the Theresienstadt concentration camp during the Second World War and her burial place is unknown.
Herzl’s request for his children to buried alongside him and the site of their burial up-till-now was revealed by Israeli historian Ariel Feldestein.
Theodor Herzl's tomb on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem
www.ejpress.org /article/news/western_europe/10859   (655 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Herzl,
Herzl, Theodor (1860–1904) Founder of modern Zionism, b.
He worked for most of his life as a writer and journalist in Vienna, advocating the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine; in 1897 he founded the Zionist movement, of which he was the most influential...
It was founded in 1924 and named for Theodor Herzl, the founder of modern Zionism.
www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Herzl,   (667 words)

  
 Theodor Herzl
The Kishinev pogrom in 1903 and the devastation of Russian Jewry, witnessed by Herzl during a visit to Russia, moved Herzl to propose that the Russian government assist the Zionist Movement to transfer Jews from Russia.
Herzl died in Vienna in 1904, of pneumonia, but the essential part of his work was done.
In 1949, Herzl's remains were brought to Israel and buried on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.
www.zionism-israel.com /bio/biography_herzl.htm   (1372 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
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)

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