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Herzl, Theodor. Medinat HaYehudim: Der Judenstaat. [“The Jewish State, An Attempt at a Modern Solution to the Jewish Question”]

Auction 58 · Lot 290

Herzl, Theodor. Medinat HaYehudim: Der Judenstaat. [“The Jewish State, An Attempt at a Modern Solution to the Jewish Question”]

Estimate
$2,000–$3,000
Hammer price
$5,000

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

(ZIONISM).

printer

Halter And Eisenstadt for Toshiah

Place

Warsaw

Publication

1896

Description

FIRST HEBREW EDITION. Partially unopened. Bound in original publisher’s boards.

summary

FIRST HEBREW EDITION OF HERZL’S HERALD OF MODERN ZIONISM. Theodor Herzl founded political Zionism in this slim tract. An epochal call for the establishment of a Jewish State as a National Home for the Jewish People. “Herzl’s Der Judenstaat has remained the single most important manifesto of modern Zionism and is one of the most important books in the history of the Jewish People.” See Michael Heymann, Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana-Treasures of Jewish Booklore (1994) no. 46, pp. 102-3.
pp. 82. Browned with small clean tear on p. 2. Later boards. 8vo.
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