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“If you will it, it’s no dream.” – Theodor Herzl
I have been pondering and reading much about Theodor Herzl’s tragic family. They are roiling in me. I don’t use the word “tragic” lightly. In the next few posts I shall try and give a fair and...
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Herzl and the Dreyfus Affair: French poetic justice
In 1894, Dreyfus, a young Jewish Captain in the French army, was wrongfully found guilty of passing on French military secrets to the German Embassy in Paris. After a humiliating trial – publicised...
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Herzl, King of the Jews
In August, 1897, Herzl convened the first Zionist Congress in Basel. In the entry for September 3, 1897 of his diary, Herzl sums up what he considers to be the defining moment of the Congress: “If I...
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The fall and the fall of the Herzl Dynasty (1): The clouds open
Theodor Herzl, “the founder of Zionism spent his life fighting for a home for his people. His orphaned children spent their lives searching for a home of their own.” (David Zax) There was the “Rise of...
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The fall and the fall of the Herzl Dynasty (2): Lamentations of the Daughters...
Theodor and Julie, his wife, had a very unhappy marriage. Julie suffered from mental illness and drug addiction She died in 1907 at the aged of 39, three years after her husband’s death. Hans her son...
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Outstanding and Standing out Jewish believers in Yeshua: the Anima of Hans Herzl
One of the topics on my site is “Theodor Herzl and his tragic family.” In “Herzl, King of the Jews,” I described Theodor dreaming about fitting out his son, Hans, his lowly tormented son, in the grubby...
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Herzl, Jeremiah and Nietzsche: the Old and the New Paths
Theodor Herzl and the Prophet Jeremiah had, as I wrote elsewhere, this in common: Theodor had a fire shut up in his bones that consumed him, perhaps similar to the intensity of the fire that consumed...
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Hans Herzl (1): The World-Church and Unification of the Human family
Freud, Bismarck,Theodor Herzl – and who knows how many others? – looked in the mirror and saw Moses. Shortly before Herzl died, he told a friend a dream he had at the age of twelve. The King-Messiah...
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Hans Herzl (2): He was always a Jew?
(The is a follow-on from Hans Herzl (1): The World-Church and Unification of the Human family) When Hans Herzl was four years old, Theodor, his father, pictured Hans in the grubby regalia of a medieval...
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Hans Herzl (3): Catholicism, liberal Judaism and death
This is a follow-on from two earlier pieces on Hans Herzl – Hans (1) and Hans (2). I discuss Hans’ involvement with Christianity and liberal Judaism, his death and final burial on Mt Herzl. Matt at the...
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Theodor Herzl and the Enlightenment
Theodor Herzl’s influence looms large in the history of modern Zionism. Few Jews have not been affected by it, whether they are aware of it or not. In my life, besides this influence, which I am...
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