Sublime

Le peuple juif est actuellement empêché, par l’éparpillement, de s’occuper luimême de ses affaires politiques. En outre, il se trouve sur différents points dans une situation plus ou moins difficile. Il a besoin avant tout d’un gestor. Ce gestor ne peut, cela va sans dire, être un seul individu. Un pareil gestor serait ridicule ou – parce qu’il pou

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.

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

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

After all, to those Jews who had despaired of Europe, to those Jews for whom Zionism was the beginning of a renewed dream and a renewed hope, Herzl was Abraham, who first wandered “to the place that I will show you.” He was Moses, leading his flock to the Promised Land. He was David, with the promise of renewed Jewish sovereignty. He was Bar Kokhba

Nous sommes un peuple un.

almost overnight, the appearance of The Jewish State transformed Herzl from a lone voice into the leader of an international movement.”22 The movement’s central idea—though it now sounds commonplace—was then a stunning proposal. And now, much of the Jewish world had been convinced: the Jewish people needed a state, and they could create one.

L’idée de l’établissement d’un État juif, que je développe dans cet écrit, est très ancienne. Longtemps assoupie, elle se réveille aux cris contre les Juifs dont retentit le monde.