The birth and development of Zionism: Theodor Herzl

Thematic Great Book on the genesis of political Zionism: the shock of the Dreyfus affair, The Jewish State (Der Judenstaat, 1896), the first Zionist Congress in Basel (1897), and the founding of the World Zionist Organization. It follows the decisive role of Theodor Herzl and the development of the movement — currents, institutions, diplomacy — up to the aliyot that followed his death in 1904. History register, without conflating political project and messianic hope.