TY  - BOOK
AU  - Penslar,Derek Jonathan
TI  - Theodor Herzl: the charismatic leader 
T2  - Jewish lives
SN  - 0300180403
AV  - DS151 .H4 P45 2020
U1  - 320.54095694092 23
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - Herzl, Theodor,
KW  - Jews
KW  - Austria
KW  - Biography
KW  - Zionism
KW  - History
KW  - Zionists
KW  - Biographies
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction -- Becoming Theodor Herzl -- Our man in Paris -- The organizational genius -- Reaching for the stars -- If you will it, it is still a dream -- Epilogue: The view from Mount Herzl
N2  - The life of Theodor Herzl (1860?1904) 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 Herzl?s personal, literary, and political writings, historian Derek Penslar shows that Herzl's 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 leader - possessed 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
ER  -