The Jewish State   By: Theodor Herzl (1860-1904)

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THE JEWISH STATE

Theodor Herzl

THE JEWISH STATE

by Theodor Herzl

Dover Publications, Inc., New York

This Dover edition, first published in 1988, is an unabridged, unaltered republication of the work originally published in 1946 by the American Zionist Emergency Council, New York, based on a revised translation published by the Scopus Publishing Company, New York, 1943, which was, in turn, based on the first English language edition, A Jewish State , translated by Sylvie d'Avigdor, and published by Nutt, London, England, 1896. The Herzl text was originally published under the title Der Judenstaat in Vienna, 1896. Please see the note on the facing page for further details.

" THE JEWISH STATE " is published by the American Zionist Emergency Council for its constituent organizations on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the publication of "DER JUDENSTAAT" in Vienna, February 14, 1896.

The translation of "THE JEWISH STATE" based on a revised translation published by the Scopus Publishing Company was further revised by Jacob M. Alkow, editor of this book. The biography was condensed from Alex Bein's Theodor Herzl, published by the Jewish Publication Society of America. The bibliography and the chronology were prepared by the Zionist Archives and Library. To Mr. Louis Lipsky and to all of the above mentioned contributors, the American Zionist Emergency Council is deeply indebted.

Contents

Introduction Louis Lipsky 9

Biography Alex Bein 21

The Jewish State Theodor Herzl 67

Preface 69

I. Introduction 73

II. The Jewish Question 85

III. The Jewish Company 98

IV. Local Groups 123

V. Society of Jews and Jewish State 136

VI. Conclusion 153

Bibliography 158

Chronology 159

INTRODUCTION

by

Louis Lipsky

Introduction

Theodore Herzl was the first Jew who projected the Jewish question as an international problem. "The Jewish State," written fifty years ago, was the first public expression, in a modern language, by a modern Jew, of a dynamic conception of how the solution of the problem could be accelerated and the ancient Jewish hope, slumbering in Jewish memory for two thousand years, could be fulfilled.