July 3rd, 1904 Theodor Herzl Dies
Theodor Herzl died at age 44 in Edlach, Austria-Hungary
Theodor Herzl
1903 The Uganda Project
British Colonial Secretary Joseph Chamberlain proposed a Jewish Homeland on 5,000 square miles of the Mau Mau Plateau in Uganda what is today Kenya. The proposal was declined by the Zionist Congress in 1905. Source: Wiki
Oct 29, 1898 Herzl and Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany in Palestine
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 […]
Oct 29, 1898 Herzl Meets Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany in Palestine
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 […]
Oct 28, 1898 Herzl Meets Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany in Palestine
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 […]
February 1896 Theodor Herzl Publishes Der Judenstaat
February 1896 Zionism Theodor Herzl Publishes Der Judenstaat (The Jewish State)
August 1897 Theodore Herzl Predicts that there would be a state of Israel by 1947
August 1897 Theodor Herzl ! “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 I to sum up the Basel Congress in one word—which I shall guard against pronouncing […]
January 13, 1898 I Accuse Letter to President of the Republic
January 13, 1898 I Accuse Letter to President of the Republic by Emile Zola
October 18, 1898 Theodor Herzl Meets Kaiser Wilhelm II Of German in Palestine
October 18, 1898 Theodor Herzl Meets Kaiser Wilhelm II Of German in Palestine 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 […]
Oct. 19, 1898 Theodor Herzl Meets Kaiser Wilhelm II Of German in Palestine
Oct. 19, 1898 Theodor Herzl Meets Kaiser Wilhelm II Of German in Palestine 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 […]