Theodor Herzl: The Charismatic Leader (Jewish Lives)
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| Category: | Books |
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| ISBN: | 0300180403 |
| Title: | Theodor Herzl: The Charismatic Leader (Jewish Lives) The Fast Free Shipping |
| Author: | Penslar, Derek |
| Publisher: | Yale University Press |
| Year Published: | 2020 |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Book Binding: | Hardback |
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| Book Condition: | VERYGOOD |
| SKU: | GOR010697457 |
Item description
From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a masterful new biography of Theodor Herzl byan eminent historian of Zionism
"An excellent, concise biography of Theodor Herzl, architect of modern Zionism. . . . An exceptionally good, highly readable volume."Publishers Weekly, starred review
"An engrossing account of a leader who, by converting despair into strength, gave an exiled people both political purpose and the means to attain it."Benjamin Balint, Wall Street Journal
The life of Theodor Herzl (18601904) 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 Herzls personal, literary, and political writings, historian Derek Penslar shows that Herzls 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 leaderpossessed 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.
About Jewish Lives:
Jewish Lives is a prizewinning series of interpretative biography designed to explore the many facets of Jewish identity. Individual volumes illuminate the imprint of Jewish figures upon literature, religion, philosophy, politics, cultural and economic life, and the arts and sciences. Subjects are paired with authors to elicit lively, deeply informed books that explore the range and depth of the Jewish experience from antiquity to the present.
In 2014, the Jewish Book Council named Jewish Lives the winner of its Jewish Book of the Year Award, the first series ever to receive this award.
More praise for Jewish Lives:
Excellent. New York times
Exemplary. Wall St. Journal
Distinguished. New Yorker
Superb. The Guardian
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