Jerusalem Conclusion of my Address to the Kaiser: This is the fatherland of ideas which do not belong to one people or to one creed alone. The farther men advance in their morality, the more clearly do they recognize the common elements in these ideas. And thus the actual city of Jerusalem, with its fateful […]
Jerusalem Sent the Address to August Eulenburg with the following covering letter: Your Excellency: I have the honor most humbly to submit the enclosed Address of the Zionist Deputation. I beg Your Excellency to be kind enough to inform me, when returning the manuscript, of the changes desired by His Majesty the Kaiser, or else […]
At nine o’clock a commotion on the highway, which was lined with a mixed multitude of Arab beggars, womenfolk, children, and horsemen, heralded the approach of the imperial procession. Fierce-looking Turkish cavalry came galloping toward us at full tilt, rifles at the ready and shooting even more threatening glances all around. Then the outriders of […]
“The Great Game” One more recollection. Most of the time the Kaiser looked me full in the face. Only when I spoke of the new overland route to Asia-Mediterranean, Persian gulf- did he stare into space as though lost in thought, and the thoughtful expression on his fine, serious face revealed to me that I […]
On board the “Imperator Nicholas II” I accompanied the draft for the address with the following letter to Bulow: Your Excellency: I beg to enclose herewith the draft for my address to His Majesty. I have spent a very bad night with all sorts of pains in my heart and am virtually incapacitated for work. […]
Eight o’clock in the evening, at the hotel After the audience with the Kaiser, which I will enter tomorrow en route. I had arranged with the Kaiser and with Bulow that this very evening I would submit the draft of my address in Palestine (e.g. October 29, 1898). Draft: Your Imperial and Royal Majesty! Most […]
I Accuse Letter to President of the Republic by Emile Zola
“The Great Game” Captain W. Lebedeff Grenadier of Guards of Russia “WE MUST INDEED COME INTO CONTACT WITH INDIA… WE SHALL COMPEL GREAT BRITAIN TO PLACE A PROPER VALUE ON OUR FRIENDSHIP AND TO RELINQUISH HER AGGRESSIVE POLICY IN REGARD TO RUSSIA. THE MIGHT OF INDIA WILL BE SAPPED, SEEING THAT IT WILL BECOME NECESSARY […]
After the first Zionist conference at Basel Theodore Herzl Predicts that there would be a state of Israel by 1947! “The most quoted entry in Herzl’s diaries is undoubtedly the sentence in which he tries to sum up his assessment of the first Zionist Congress, convoked at his invitation in Basel in August 1897: “Were […]
Theodor Herzl Publishes Der Judenstaat (The Jewish State) after the Dreyfuss Trial in France