A Jewish State
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Theodor Herzl
Theodor Herzl, geboren 1860 in Budapest, gilt als Begründer des Zionismus als politische Bewegung. Seine Wahrnehmung des Antisemitismus brachte ihn zu der Überzeugung, dass nur ein eigener Staat eine Lösung der sog. Judenfrage herbeiführen könne. Mit seiner Schrift "Der Judenstaat" gab er dem Zionismus den Anstoß, der schließlich zur Gründung des Staates Israel führte.
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A Jewish State - Theodor Herzl
Theodor Herzl
A Jewish State
EAN 8596547164418
DigiCat, 2022
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Table of Contents
THE JEWISH QUESTION
PREVIOUS ATTEMPTS AT A SOLUTION
CAUSES OF ANTI-SEMITISM.
EFFECTS OF ANTI-SEMITISM.
THE PLAN.
PALESTINE OR ARGENTINA?
DEMAND, MEDIUM, TRADE.
OUTLINES.
NON-TRANSFERABLE GOODS.
PURCHASE OF LAND.
BUILDINGS.
WORKMEN'S DWELLINGS.
UNSKILLED LABORERS.
THE SEVEN-HOURS DAY.
THE LABOR-TEST.
COMMERCE.
OTHER CLASSES OF DWELLINGS.
SOME FORMS OF REALIZING NON-TRANSFERABLE PROPERTY
SECURITIES OF THE COMPANY.
SOME OF THE COMPANY'S FUNCTIONS.
PROMOTION OF INDUSTRIES.
SETTLEMENT OF SKILLED LABORERS.
METHOD OF RAISING CAPITAL.
LOCAL GROUPS
OUR TRANSMIGRATION.
EMIGRATION IN GROUPS.
OUR MINISTERS.
RESPONSIBLE MEN OF THE LOCAL GROUPS.
PLANS OF THE TOWNS.
THE DEPARTURE OF THE MIDDLE CLASSES.
THE PHENOMENON OF MULTITUDES.
OUR INTRINSIC QUALITIES.
HABITS.
SOCIETY OF JEWS AND JEWISH STATE
NEGOTIORUM GESTIO.
THE GESTOR OF THE JEWS.
THE OCCUPATION OF LAND.
CONSTITUTION.
LANGUAGE.
THEOCRACY.
LAWS.
THE ARMY.
THE BANNER.
RECIPROCITY AND CARTELS.
BENEFITS OF THE IMMIGRATION OF THE JEWS.
CONCLUSION
It is astonishing how little insight many of the men who move in the midst of active life possess of the science of economics. Hence it is that even Jews faithfully repeat the cry of the Anti-Semites: We depend for sustenance on the nations whose guests we are, and if we had not hosts to support us we should die of starvation.
This is a point that shows how greatly unjust accusations may weaken our self-knowledge. But what are the true grounds for this statement concerning the nations which take us in? Where it is not based on limited physiocratic views it is founded on the childish error that commodities pass from hand to hand in continuous rotation. We need not wake from long slumber, like Rip van Winkle, to realize that the world is considerably altered by the production of new commodities. The technical progress made during this wonderful era enables even a man of most limited intelligence to note with his short-sighted eyes the appearance of innumerable new commodities. The spirit of enterprise has created them.
Labor without enterprise is the stationary labor of ancient days; and typical of it is the work of the husbandman, who stands now just where his progenitors stood a thousand years ago. All our material welfare has been brought about by men of enterprise. I feel almost ashamed of writing down so trite a remark. Even if we were a nation of promoters—such as absurdly exaggerated accounts make us out to be—we should not require another nation to live on. We do not depend only on the circulation of old commodities, because we produce new ones.
We possess slaves of extraordinary strength for work, whose appearance in the world has been fatal to the production of hand-made goods: these slaves are the machines. It is true that workmen are required to set machinery in motion; but for this we have men in plenty, in superabundance. Only those who are ignorant of the condition of Jews in many countries of Eastern Europe would venture to assert that Jews are either unfit or unwilling to perform manual labor.
But I do not wish to take up the cudgels for the Jews in this pamphlet. It would be useless. Everything rational and everything sentimental that can possibly be said in their defence, has been said already. New arguments in favor of a certain condition of mind or of feeling answer no purpose. If one's hearers are incapable of comprehending them, one is a preacher in a desert. And if one's hearers are broad and high-minded enough to have grasped them already, then the whole sermon is superfluous. I believe in the ascent of man to higher and yet higher grades of civilization; but I consider this ascent to be desperately slow. Were we to wait till average humanity had become as charitably inclined as was Lessing when he wrote Nathan the Wise,
we should wait beyond our day, beyond the days of our children, of our grandchildren and of our great-grandchildren. But the world spirit comes to our aid in another way.
This century has given the world a wonderful renaissance by means of its technical acquisitions; but at the same time its miraculous improvements have not been employed in the service of humanity. Distance has ceased to be an obstacle, yet we complain of insufficient space. Our great steamships carry us swiftly and surely over hitherto unvisited seas. Our railways carry us safely into a mountain-world heretofore tremblingly scaled on foot. Events occurring in countries undiscovered when Europe confined the Jews in Ghettos, are known to us in the course of an hour. Hence the misery of the Jews is an anachronism—not because there was a period of enlightenment one hundred years ago, for that enlightenment reached in reality only the choicest spirits.
Now, I am of opinion that electric light was not invented for the purpose of illuminating the drawing-rooms of a few snobs, but rather for the purpose of throwing light on some of the dark problems of humanity. One of these problems, and not the least of them, is the Jewish question. In solving it, we are working not only for ourselves, but for many other over-burdened and oppressed beings also.
The Jewish question still exists. It would be useless to deny it. It is a remnant of the Middle Ages, which civilized nations do not even yet seem able to shake off, try as they will. They certainly showed a generous desire to do so when they emancipated us. The Jewish question exists wherever Jews live in perceptible numbers. Where it does not exist, it is carried by Jews in the course of their migrations. We naturally move to those places where we are not persecuted, and there our presence produces persecution. This is the case in every country, and will remain so, even in those most highly civilized—France itself being no exception—till the Jewish question finds a solution on a political basis. The unfortunate Jews are now carrying Anti-Semitism into England; they have already introduced it into America.
I believe that I understand Anti-Semitism, which is really a highly complex movement. I consider it from a Jewish standpoint, yet without fear or hatred. I believe that I can see what elements there are in it of vulgar sport, of common trade jealousy, of inherited prejudice, of religious intolerance, and also of pretended self-defence. I think the Jewish question is no more a social than a religious one, notwithstanding that it sometimes takes these and other forms. It is a national question, which can only be solved by making it a political world-question to be discussed and controlled by the civilized nations of the world in council.
We are a people—One people.
We have honestly endeavored everywhere to merge ourselves in the social life of surrounding communities, and to preserve only the faith of our fathers. It has not been permitted to us. In vain are we loyal patriots, our loyalty in some places running to extremes; in vain do we make the same sacrifices of life and property as our fellow citizens; in vain do we strive to increase the fame of our native land in science