Tue, June 08, 2010 Sivan 26, 5770
How does Israeli society match up to the vision outlined by Herzl in 'Altneuland'?
1 commentsAs Herzl became a legend in his own lifetime, his portrait emerged as the most widespread symbol of the Zionist movement, appearing on everything from household bric-a-brac to propaganda posters.
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It’s hard to find a city in Israel without a road named after the Zionist visionary, but Herzl streets across the country share little more than a common name.
1 commentsHerzl is remembered for just about everything except the one title he desired: accomplished playwright.
0 commentsThough often remembered for his early dismissal of Hebrew as the language for the Jewish State, Herzl actually had a change of heart and became a great backer of the revived dialect.
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Herzl’s combination of religion and nationalism was reviled by many rabbis of his time. Today he is hardly discussed in observant circles. But one religious scholar suggests that Herzl is key to solving the identity crisis wracking Israeli society.
0 commentsMotti Friedman is one of many who have been bitten by the Herzl bug, after starting light years away from the Zionist leader as a yeshiva student deep within the Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) community.
0 commentsDid Herzl’s turbulent personal life and mental instability push him toward a single-minded obsession with the Jewish question?
0 commentsWhy are we interested in Herzl as an individual? Is it mere curiosity, or does our preoccupation with the mental disturbances of the visionary of the Jewish state have additional significance?
0 commentsTheodor Herzl and American humorist Samuel Clemens crossed paths more than once, with unexpected consequences.
0 commentsNot everyone was happy to see Herzl on the shores of the British Isles. Though he made political gains, the majority of the Anglo-Jewish community rejected his Zionistic notions.
0 commentsHerzl would have been disappointed to learn that it would take Jewish military power to establish the Jewish state and guarantee its survival.
0 commentsIt was calculated pragmatism, not lunacy as some claim, that drove Herzl’s vision of a Jewish state.
0 commentsHerzl’s declaration that, in the new state he envisioned, we need to keep “our clergy within the confines of their temples” adds to the sense of his being a Jewish anti-hero.
1 commentsThough the Zionist leader has no direct descendants, hundreds of distant relatives have fulfilled Herzl’s dream.
0 commentsWhile some of Theodor Herzl’s family members immigrated after the Holocaust, a significant group on the religious side arrived in Palestine thanks to the efforts of Yechiel Roth.
0 commentsWhile he did have first cousins in Hungary who had children, relatives in Israel do not know the fate of this nearest branch to Theodor Herzl in the family tree.
0 commentsThe Torah may have one official version, but family trees are far from canonical.
0 commentsDespite various efforts, the public remains largely ignorant of the Zionist visionary’s official birthday.
0 commentsFor the last 100 years, parents have been paying homage to Theodor Herzl by naming their children after the leader. A snapshot of six who are reminded daily of the founder of Zionism.
0 commentsHerzel Lifshitz was born in 1924 in Tel Aviv. His father was the son of a rabbi, a scion of the family of the Vilna Gaon, and so his acceptance of Zionism distanced him from his family.
0 commentsIn recent years, Herzl Muthada started becoming more religious and now considers the name of the great secularist Herzl problematic.
0 commentsHerzel Luzon went to a store with two other friends by that name and by chance they met both a salesman and another customer with the same name.
0 commentsHertzel Katz says he was named after his maternal grandfather, who was probably born in Lithuania toward the end of the 19th century, and apparently without any connection to the Zionist visionary.
0 commentsHerzel Barzilai was born in 1960 and was named after the visionary of the state because that year marked what would have been Herzl’s 100th birthday.
0 commentsHerzl (Maria) F. came to Israel from the Philippines five years ago on a work visa.
0 commentsThis editorial originally appeared in Haaretz on August 17, 1949, the day after Theodor Herzl was reinterred in Jerusalem. Six decades closer to the man, the War of Independence generation had an appreciation for Herzl somewhat lost today.
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