Herzl, Theodor. Altneuland.

(AMERICAN JUDAICA)

circa

Brooklyn, New York

1902

First American Edition.

This Yiddish translation of Herzl’s Altneuland was originally published in Warsaw in 1902 by Israel Isidor (“Baal Machshoves”) Elyashev, a “Yiddish literary critic, pioneer, and creator of Yiddish literary criticism as an art form” (EJ). “[Herzl’s] visit to Palestine stimulated [him] to write the novel Altneuland … Through the plot and characters, Palestine is first seen as he saw it in 1898 and as he imagined it would be twenty-one years later” (UJE, vol. 5, p. 340)