מדינת היהודים The Jewish State

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The Jewish State
by Theodor (Binyamin Zeev) Herzl

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Translated by Michal Berkovitch acoustical liberation of books in the public domaih

This recording is in Hebrew.

Der Judenstaat (German, The Jewish State) is a book written by Theodor (Binyamin
Zeev) Herzl and published in 1896 in Leipzig and Vienna by M. Breitenstein’s Verlags-
Buchhandlung. It was originally called “Address to the Rothschilds” referring to the
Rothschild family banking dynasty which was very influential in the realization of a
Zionist state in Palestine. It is considered to be one of the most important texts of
early Zionism. As expressed in this book, Herzl envisioned the founding of a future
independent Jewish state during the twentieth century. He argued that the best way of
avoiding anti-Semitism in Europe was to create this independent Jewish state. Herzl,
who had lived as a secular, largely assimilated Jew, was fluent in neither Hebrew nor
Yiddish. His lack of contact with Jewish culture and intellectual currents, and his
limited contact with Jews less assimilated than he prior to hitting upon the idea of a
Jewish return to Zion, led him to imagine that popular Jewish support for a Jewish
State elsewhere than in Israel was conceivable. In Der Judenstaat, Herzl noted the
possibility of a Jewish state in Argentina.

Read by Omri Lernau Total running time 3:45:35

Cover image: portrait of Theodor Herzl by Ephraim Moses Lilien, 1902.
Cover design by LA Walden.

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