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THEODOR HERZL (1860-1904)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 406 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HERZL (1860-1904)  , founder of See also:modern See also:political See also:Zionism (q.v.), was See also:born in See also:Budapest on the and of May 1860, survive the See also:initiation of the somewhat embittered " territorial" controversy . He died in the summer of 1904, amid the consternation of supporters and the deep grief of opponents of his Zionistic aims . See also:Herzl was beyond question the most influential Jewish See also:personality of the 19th See also:century . He had no profound insight into the problem of Judaism, and there was no lasting validity in his view that the problem—the thousands of years' old See also:mystery—could be solved by a retrogression to See also:local See also:nationality . But he brought See also:home to See also:Jews the perils that confronted. them; he compelled many a " semi-detached " son of See also:Israel to rejoin the See also:camp; he forced the "assimilationists " to realize their position and to define it; his See also:scheme gave a new impulse to "Jewish culture," including the popularization of See also:Hebrew as a living speech; and he effectively roused Jews all the See also:world over to an See also:earnest and vital See also:interest in their See also:present and their future . Herzl thus See also:left an indelible See also:mark on his See also:time, and his renown is assured whatever be the See also:fate in See also:store for the political Zionism which he founded and for which he gave his See also:life . (I .

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