Herzl, Theodor. The Jewish State.

(ZIONISM).

The Maccabaean Publishing Co.

New York

1904

FIRST AMERICAN ENGLISH EDITION. Preface and notes by Jacob de Haas. With celebrated photographic portrait of Herzl leaning over the balcony-rail of the Hotel Les Trois Rois, Basel. Half-title signed by the early American Zionist leader, Joseph H. Berkowitz. Endpapers tipped with portrait of Herzl, map of Israel and related newspaper cuttings.

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF “DER JUDENSTAAT.” Within this slim tract Theodor Herzl founded political Zionism - an epochal call for the establishment of a Jewish State as a National Home for the Jewish People. “That (such a) State was created in Palestine within fifty years of (Herzl’s) death was due to the vision and the practical methods expressed in (this) manifesto.” Carter & Muir, Printing and the Mind of Man (1983) no. 381.