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Theodor Herzl

From Assimilation to Zionism

by (author) Jacques Kornberg

Publisher
Indiana University Press
Initial publish date
Nov 1993
Category
General, General
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780253332035
    Publish Date
    Nov 1993
    List Price
    $34.00

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"An original and brilliant thesis, exposing a long misunderstood figure. A great book." —Bernard Avishai

"Excellent . . . a highly revealing portrait that demolishes Herzl-the-icon." —Michael Marrus

"Other biographers . . . have illuminated aspects of [Herzl's] life, but none has been able to produce the kind of intellectual biography that we have here. Jacques Kornberg has done an admirable job of plumbing the depths of Herzl's mind to try to come to an understanding of just why he became a Zionist and why he was literally consumed with promoting Zionist goals." —Cithara

"With compassion and critical balance, placing his subject well within his Austrian milieu, Kornberg analyzes Herzl's rhetoric, tergiversations, and profound ambivalence over his politics and identity." —Choice

" . . . a masterful display of the sources . . . " —American Historical Review

" . . . stimulating, provocative and agreeably iconoclastic . . . powerful and compelling." —German History

A novel and provocative explanation of Theodor Herzl's founding of Zionism as a way of resolving his personal crisis over his Jewish identity.

About the author

Jacques Kornberg is Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at the University of Toronto.

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