Table of Content
Introduction ‒ Robert S. Wistrich: Theodor Herzl: Between Myth and Messianism. Denis Charbit: Herzl’s Nationalism: Is it Ethnic or Civic? Jacques Kornberg: Theodor Herzl: Zionism as Personal Liberation.
Benno Wagner: Leaders 1904. Masaryk ‒ Herzl ‒ Kafka. Michael Berkowitz: Re-Imagining Herzl and other Zionist Sex Symbols. Eitan Bar-Yosef: A Villa in the Jungle: Herzl, Zionist Culture, and the Great African Adventure. Daniel Hoffmann: ‘Dieses schlicht verschwiegene Bekenntnis’. Gustav G. Cohen, ein unbekannter Freund Theodor Herzls. Jacob Golomb: Transfiguration of the Self in Herzl’s Life and in his Literary Fiction. Klaus Hödl: Theodor Herzl and the Crisis of Jewish Self-Understanding. Bernhard Greiner: „What Will People Say?” Herzl as Author of Comedies. Vivian Liska: A Vision out of Sight. Theodor Herzl’s Late Philosophical Tales. Mark H. Gelber: The Life and Death of Herzl in Jewish Consciousness: Genre Issues and Mythic Perspectives. Frank Stern: Der Wandernde Jude ‒ Herzl und der Zionismus auf der Leinwand. Na’ama Rokem: Making Use of Prose: The Politics of Genre in Theodor Herzl and H. N. Bialik: Gershon Shaked: Mythic Figure or Flesh and Blood? The Literary Reception of Herzl in Hebrew Poetry and in Nathan Bistritzki’s „The Secret of Birth”. Anat Feinberg: ‘Mein Kampf’: George Tabori’s Subversive Herzl Variation. List of Contributors. Index
About the author
Mark H. Gelber, Ben-Gurion University, Israel; Vivian Liska, University of Antwerpen, Belgium.