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by
Theodor Herzl (Author),
Jacques Kornberg (Editor)
Old New Land forever altered the face of the Middle East. The book was a nineteenth-century utopian blueprint for a modern state of Israel. There were Jewish settlers in Palestine, and Zionist ideas had existed in Eastern Europe before Herzl, but Herzl made Zionism into a cultural and political movement acceptable to Western governments and intellectuals. His prophecy at the end of this book became reality: “If you will it, it is not a fable.”
The author, founder of the Zionist movement, considered this utopian story his best literary work: an expression of his art, with a political message. His biographer, Amos Elon, placed Old New Land “in the mainstream of fin-de-si cle art. Its pursuit of arcadian bliss within a mystic community and its haunted preoccupation with dreams recall Gustav Mahler’s music.”
Number of Pages: 340Dimensions: 0.76 x 9 x 6 INPublication Date: June 21, 2020
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