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initiation of the somewhat embittered " territorial" controversy. He died in the summer of 1904, amid the consternation of supporters and the deep grief of opponents of his Zionistic aims. Herzl was beyond question the most influential Jewish See also:

PERSONALITY (from Lat. persona, originally an actor's mask, from personare,1 to sound through)

personality of the 19th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century. He had no profound insight into the problem of Judaism, and there was no lasting validity in his view that the problem—the thousands of years' old See also:

MYSTERY (Gr. µw(Trilpcov, from tcuvrm, an initiate, µfew, to shut the mouth)

mystery—could be solved by a retrogression to See also:

LOCAL

local See also:

NATIONALITY

nationality. But he brought See also:

home to See also:

Jews the perils that confronted. them; he compelled many a " semi-detached " son of See also:

ISRAEL (Hebrew for " God strives " or " rules "; see Gen. xxxii. 28; and the allusion in Hosea xii. 4)

Israel to rejoin the See also:

CAMP (from Lat. campus, field)

camp; he forced the "assimilationists " to realize their position and to define it; his See also:

SCHEME (Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, form, from the root axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)

scheme gave a new impulse to "Jewish culture," including the popularization of See also:

HEBREW

Hebrew as a living speech; and he effectively roused Jews all the See also:

WORLD

world over to an See also:

EARNEST (probably a corruption of the obsolete arles or erles, adapted from Lat. equivalent arrha, due to a confusion with the adjective " earnest," serious, O. Eng. eornust, cognate with Ger. ernst)

earnest and vital See also:

INTEREST

interest in their See also:

PRESENT

present and their future. Herzl thus See also:

LEFT

left an indelible See also:

mark on his See also:

time, and his renown is assured whatever be the See also:

FATE

fate in See also:

STORE (from O. Fr. estor or estoire, Late Lat. staurum or instaurum, stock, provisions, supply, from the late use of instaurare, to provide, properly to construct, renew, restore)

store for the political Zionism which he founded and for which he gave his See also:

LIFE

life. (I.

End of Article: HERZL, THEODOR (1860-1904)

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