The translation of "THE JEWISH STATE" based on a revised translation
published by the Scopus Publishing Company was further revised by
Jacob M. Alkow, editor of this book. The biography was condensed from
Alex Bein's Theodor Herzl, published by the Jewish Publication Society
of America. The bibliography and the chronology were prepared by the
Zionist Archives and Library. To Mr. Louis Lipsky and to all of the
above mentioned contributors, the American Zionist Emergency Council
is deeply indebted.

Contents

Introduction--Louis Lipsky 9

Biography--Alex Bein 21

The Jewish State--Theodor Herzl 67

Preface 69

I. Introduction 73

II. The Jewish Question 85

III. The Jewish Company 98

IV. Local Groups 123

V. Society of Jews and Jewish State 136

VI. Conclusion 153

Bibliography 158

Chronology 159

INTRODUCTION

by

_Louis Lipsky_

_Introduction_

Theodore Herzl was the first Jew who projected the Jewish question as
an international problem. "The Jewish State," written fifty years ago,
was the first public expression, in a modern language, by a modern
Jew, of a dynamic conception of how the solution of the problem could
be accelerated and the ancient Jewish hope, slumbering in Jewish
memory for two thousand years, could be fulfilled.

In 1882, Leo Pinsker, a Jewish physician of Odessa, disturbed by the
pogroms of 1881, made a keen analysis of the position of the Jews,
declared that anti-Semitism was a psychosis and incurable, that the
cause of it was the abnormal condition of Jewish life, and that the
only remedy for it was the removal of the cause through self-help and
self-liberation. The Jewish people must become an independent nation,
settled on the soil of their own land and leading the life of a normal
people. Moses Hess in his "Rome and Jerusalem" classified the Jewish
question as one of the nationalist struggles inspired by the French
Revolution. Perez Smolenskin and E.