Herzl, Theodor. Der Judenstaat. Versuch einer Modernen Losung der Judenfrage. [“The Jewish State, An Attempt at a Modern Solution to the Jewish Question”]

(ZIONISM).

M. Breitenstein

Leipzig & Vienna

1896

FIRST EDITION. Extensive marginal notes

Printing and the Mind of Man, no.381

FIRST 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 (illustrated)