novel
"Altneuland." Here he pictured the Promised Land as it might become
twenty years after the beginning of the Zionist movement. In the
interims, he played on the exciting stage of the Zionist Congresses.
He paid court to princes and their satellites. He led in the
organization of the Jewish Colonial Trust and the Jewish National
Fund. He delivered political addresses and engaged in political
controversy. He began the writing of his "Diaries" after he had
written "The Jewish State." His whole personality is reflected in that
remarkable book. There you see his ideas in the process of becoming
clear. There you see his sharp reactions; the reflection of his hopes,
his disappointments, his shifts from untenable positions to positions
possible after defeat. There you read his penetrating analysis of the
figures on the Zionist stage upon whom he had to rely. There you are
made to feel his doubts, his dread of death. In the midst of life he
felt himself encircled by the Shadow of Death. There you found the
explanation of his great haste, why he was so anxious to bring a
measure of practical reality to the Jewish people even if it
necessitated a detour from the land which was becoming more and more a
part of his hopes and desires. The "Diaries" are unrestrained and
unstudied. They were written hurriedly in the heat of the moment. They
reveal the making of the great personality who gave only a glimpse of
himself in "The Jewish State." They show the writer evolving as the
hero of a great and lasting legend. The pamphlet is one of the
chapters in the story of his struggle to achieve in eight years what
his people had not been able to achieve in two thousand years. He gave
his life to write it.

_Theodor Herzl_

A BIOGRAPHY
based on the work of

_Alex Bein_

Theodor Herzl was born on Wednesday, May 2, 1860, in the city of
Budapest.

Almost next door to his father's house was the liberal-reform temple.
To this house of worship the little boy went regularly with his father
on Sabbaths and Holy Days. At home, too, the essentials of the ritual
were observed. One ceremony which Theodor learned in childhood
remained with him; before every important event and decision he sought
the blessing of his parents.

Even stronger than these impressions, however, was the influence of
his mother. Her education had been German through and through; there
was not a day on which she did not slip into German literature,
especially t