Theodor Herzl Collection 1888-1912

Abstract

The collection contains correspondence of Theodor Herzl, including letters to Adolf Pollak regarding management of the Zionist weekly publication Die Welt, which Herzl founded. Also included are biographical sketches of Herzl, Nachum Sokolow, and Chaim Weizman, and picture postcards with photographs pertaining to Die Welt and the Zionist Congress.digitizedBorn in Budapest in 1860, Theodor Herzl was the founder of modern political Zionism and the World Zionist Organization. He came from a family of German-speaking assimilated Jews. He moved with his family to Vienna in 1878. Here he studied law and eventually became a journalist, writing for the Neue Freie Presse in Paris. In 1896, he published "Der Judenstaat," which outlined his proposal for the establishment of a Jewish state. In 1897; he organized the First Zionist Congress in Basel. The rest of his life was devoted to the Zionist movement, and he met with multiple heads of state with the hope of advancing negotiations for a territory. He died in 1904 in Austria and is buried in Jerusalem.The original German-language inventory is available in the folde