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| Title Statement | Theodor Herzl: the charismatic leader / Derek Penslar. |
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| Alternative Title(s) | Charismatic leader |
| Series | Jewish lives |
| Author | Penslar, Derek Jonathan |
| Publication | New Haven: Yale University Press,[2020]Ã2020 |
| Extent of Item | 239 pages |
| ISBN | 9780300180404 0300180403 |
| Other Number | (OCoLC)1111982571 |
| Contents | Introduction -- Becoming Theodor Herzl -- Our man in Paris -- The organizational genius -- Reaching for the stars -- If you will it, it is still a dream -- Epilogue: The view from Mount Herzl. |
| Bibliography | Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-225) and index. |
| Summary | "The life of Theodor Herzl (1860-1904) was as puzzling as it was brief. How did this cosmopolitan and assimilated European Jew become the leader of the Zionist movement? How could he be both an artist and a statesman, a rationalist and an aesthete, a stern moralist yet possessed of deep, and at times dark, passions? And why did scores of thousands of Jews, many of them from traditional, observant backgrounds, embrace Herzl as their leader? Drawing on a vast body of Herzl's personal, literary, and political writings, historian Derek Penslar shows that Herzl's path to Zionism had as much to do with personal crises as it did with antisemitism. Once Herzl devoted himself to Zionism, Penslar shows, he distinguished himself as a consummate leader - possessed of indefatigable energy, organizational ability, and electrifying charisma. Herzl became a screen onto which Jews of his era could project their deepest needs and longings." -- |
| Subjects & Genres | |
| By Topic | Zionists--Biography--Austria |
| Jews--Biography--Austria | |
| Zionism--History | |
| Zionismus | |
| Zionists--Biography--Austria | |
| Jews--Biography--Austria | |
| Zionism--History | |
| By Name | Herzl, Theodor,1860-1904 |
| Herzl, Theodor1860-1904 | |
| Herzl, Theodor,1860-1904 | |
| By Genre | Biographies |
