Remembering the Genius and Courage of Theodor Herzl
Readers of Thedor Herzl’s draft of" Der Judenstaat" vowed to destroy it at the eleventh hour. Alexander Scharf met with Herzl and begged him to stop his treatise before it hit bookshelves in a week. Well, not many bookshelves. The publisher Breitenstein, Herzl noted in his diary, “wants to have a first printing of only