TY  - GEN
T1  - Theodor Herzl : the charismatic leader
T2  - Jewish lives (New Haven, Conn.)
A1  - Penslar, Derek Jonathan
LA  - English
PP  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
YR  - 2020
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1139709164
AB  - 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.--
OP  - 239
CN  - DS151.H4 P45 2020eb
SN  - 9780300182507
SN  - 0300182503
SN  - 9780300180404
SN  - 0300180403
KW  - Herzl, Theodor, : 1860-1904.
KW  - Herzl, Theodor, : 1860-1904
KW  - Zionists : Austria : Biography.
KW  - Jews : Austria : Biography.
KW  - Zionism.
KW  - Juifs : Autriche : Biographies.
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY : Historical.
KW  - Jews
KW  - Zionism
KW  - Zionists
KW  - Austria
KW  - Biography
KW  - Biographies
KW  - Biographies.
ER  -