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1860–1904 Hungary
Theodor Herzl (Hebrew: בנימין זאב הֶרְצְל Binyamin Ze'ev Hertsl); 2 May 1860 – 3 July 1904), was the founder and leader of the World Zionist Organization which promoted the establishment of a Jewish state. In his early life, he was an assimilated Jewish Austro-Hungarian journalist, popular playwright, political activist, and writer.
Hungary Journalists Lawyers Also known as: Herzl, Theodore Herzl
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Dream and deed are not as different as many think. All the deeds of men are dreams at first, and become dreams in the end.
All people's actions were once a dream and all peoples actions will someday be a dream.
Postfix to Altneuland (1902)
If you will, it is no legend...
Prefix to Altneuland [The Old New Land (1902)
Let me tell you that my friend and I do not discriminate between humans. We do not ask what race or what religion he is from. He has to be a human being. That is all that's important for us.
Altneuland (1902)
Were I to sum up the Basel Congress in a word — which I shall guard against pronouncing publicly — it would be this: At Basel, I founded the Jewish State. If I said this out loud today, I would be answered by universal laughter. Perhaps in five years, certainly in fifty, everyone will know it.
We are a people — one people.
Der Judenstaat (Engl. The Jewish State) (1896)
Our idea offends no one's rights or religious feelings; it breathes long-desired reconciliation. We understand and respect the devotion of all faiths to the soil on which, after all, the faith of our fathers, too, arose.
Der Judenstaat (Engl. The Jewish State) (1896)
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