Sublime

Nous sommes un peuple un.

Je répète une fois encore le mot du commencement : « Les Juifs qui le veulent auront leur État. »

Les souffrances des Juifs ne sont-elles pas encore assez grandes ? Nous verrons.

short book of approximately one hundred pages, The Jewish State made Herzl a household name across the Jewish world. Published in February 1896, it caused a stir worldwide.

Nous sommes ce qu’on nous a fait dans le ghetto.

AGAINST THIS SLOWLY UNFOLDING background of early Zionist stirrings, Herzl’s book, unlike those that had been written earlier, took the world by storm. So profound was the excitement generated by The Jewish State that by early March 1896, just weeks after the book was published, someone proposed to Herzl the idea of a Zionist congress, and he seize

Ah ! si l’on nous laissait tranquilles ! Mais je crois que l’on ne nous laissera pas tranquilles.

L’État juif est un besoin du monde : donc il se constituera.

IT WAS A BOLD DREAM, and a fanciful one in many ways. But it quickly became exceedingly practical, as well. The more desperate the Jews in Europe became, the more amenable they grew to imagining a very different world. Hess had. Pinsker had. Then Bialik did. Theodor Herzl transformed all that passion into a political movement. He was under no illus