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 walls, […]
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 to convey his gracious approval to me. I shall read it as […]
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 […]
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 had fully gripped […]
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. I shall append the conclusion later. […]
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 […]
“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 publicly—it would be this: at […]
Returning and Redemption BATH, England- When Theodor Herzl died 100 years ago, at the age of only 44, he was a frustrated man. Since publishing his little book, “The Jewish State,” in 1896, he had tirelessly written, organized and lobbied, but no such state was in sight when a heart attack struck him down. Did […]
October 18, 1898. 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. Draft- Your Imperial and Royal Majesty! Most Gracious […]
