Summary Of The Jewish State By Theodor Herzl

“The Jewish State” is a pamphlet written by Theodor Herzl that describes the frequent and harsh anti-Semitism Jews experienced in late eighteen-hundreds Europe, as well as presenting the question “should Jews leave and create their own state,” while detailing a plan how to. Theodor Herzl was born in 1860, in Hungary. Growing up he became a doctor in law and worked courts in Vienna, and Salzburg. This however, did not last long and he soon devoted his life to writing. In Paris, 1891, Herzl became the correspondent and wrote for a liberal newspaper. It was at this time where Herzl started noticing a huge wave of rampant anti-Semitism in the city of Paris, as well as all over Europe. Being Jewish himself, Herzl saw the extreme violence and political
Obviously, Herzl’s purpose for feeling like the Jews must leave comes from his personal experiences seeing unfair persecution and punishment among the Jewish community. For example, Herzl stated that Jews were often times excluded from certain hotels and places of recreation, had imports levied on Jewish villages in Russia, and all throughout Europe anti-Semites committed terrorist acts against Jews whilst excluding them from the mainstream social-circles. These many instances of anti-Semitism is what brought Herzl to the idea of a mass number of Jews leaving Europe. Herzl thought this was the only solution to the “Jewish problem” because he felt that anti-Semitism would always be present in Europe and there would be no avoiding it. Herzl’s plan to create a Jewish state was not to move every European Jew at once, but to have Jewish people gradually immigrate to the new state spanning decades from the start of the plan. Theodor Herzl has gone on record to describe the plan as a set of steps. According to the plan, the poorest must leave first. That way they can go to the new land and cultivate the soil and build roads, bridges, housing, and other construction such as telegraphs and railways. They would be also responsible to
The Zionist movement used Herzl’s pamphlet considerably after World-War II in order to gain their own Jewish nation. With Herzl's utopian vision of a Jewish state, Israel evolved which in turn, created an advanced technological society dominated by a Jewish population. Herzl's vision of a secular, liberal democracy inspired the Israeli declaration of independence. In conclusion, Theodor Herzl’s “The Jewish State,” was a detailed pamphlet about Jewish hardship with anti-Semitism and a plan for Jews to migrate to their own Jewish state, where Herzl is credited with popularizing Zionism. With this in mind, there may never have been an Israel without the extremely impactful writings of Theodor