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Theodor Herzl: The Charismatic Leader

Derek Penslar will discuss his book Theodor Herzl: The Charismatic Leader with Jonathan Gribetz. About the Book The life of Theodor Herzl (1860-1904) was as puzzling as it was brief. How did this cosmopolitan and assimilated European Jew become the leader of the Zionist movement? How could he be both an artist and a statesman, a rationalist and an aesthete,…