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Herzl The King: A Novel About the Founder of Modern Israel
Herzl The King A Novel About the Founder of Modern Israel Author:Norman Kotker On a hill overlooking Jerusalem, the once-mocked Theodor Herzl lies buried in honor as the man who envisioned the modern Jewish state. Neither warrior nor financier, neither theologian nor trained statesman, he was simply a foresighted Viennese journalist who at the beginning of the 20th century brought together from all parts of Europe those Je... more »ws able to assess the coming anti-Semitism and join him in the Zionist movement. Like Moses, Herzl led his people to the promised land but did not get to enter it- dying in his forties, alone, and broken by the still-unrealized task. Here is his story.« less